Jeremiah 49:7-22

Evangelical Heritage Version

Is there no more wisdom in Teman?
Has counsel perished from the prudent?^[a]
Has their wisdom vanished?
⁸ Flee! Turn back!
Dwell in the depths, you who live in Dedan,
for I will bring the disaster of Esau on him when I punish him.
⁹ If grape pickers came to you,
wouldn’t they leave some grapes for gleaning?
If thieves came by night,
wouldn’t they stop when they had stolen enough?
¹⁰ But I have stripped Esau bare.
I have uncovered his secret places,
and he will not be able to hide himself.
His offspring are destroyed,
along with his brothers and his neighbors,
and he is no more.
¹¹ Leave your fatherless children.
I will preserve their lives.
Let your widows trust in me.

¹⁴ I have heard news from the Lord,
and a messenger has been sent to the nations:
“Gather yourselves together,
and come against her!
Rise up for the battle!”

¹⁵ Look, I have made you small among the nations
and despised among mankind.
¹⁶ The terror you instill has deceived you,
the pride of your heart.
You who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
who occupy the high point of the hill,
even though you make your nest as high as the eagle’s nest,
I will bring you down from there, declares the Lord.
¹⁷ Edom will become a horror.
Everyone who passes by it will be shocked,
and they will hiss because of all its disasters.
¹⁸ As Sodom and Gomorrah
and their neighboring cities were overthrown,
says the Lord,
no one will live there.
Not one person will dwell in it.

¹⁹ Watch this.
Like a lion coming out of the thickets of the Jordan
    into the pastures that are always green,
I will suddenly chase Edom away from its land,
and I will appoint whomever I choose over it.
For who is like me?
Who can challenge me?
What shepherd can stand before me?
²⁰ Therefore, hear what the Lord has planned for Edom,
what he intends to do against the people of Teman.
Even the little ones of the flock will be dragged away.
He will make their pasture desolate because of them.
²¹ The earth will tremble at the noise of their fall.
Their cry will be heard all the way to the Red Sea.
²² Watch, he will come up and fly like an eagle.
He will spread out his wings against Bozrah.
In that day the hearts of the strong warriors of Edom
    will be like the heart of a woman during her labor pains.