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“See, I will make you small among the nations; you will be utterly despised.
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The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
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Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.
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All your allies will force you to the border; your friends will deceive and overpower you; those who eat your bread will set a trap for you, but you will not detect it.
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“In that day,” declares the Lord, “will I not destroy the wise men of Edom, those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
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Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever.
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You should not gloat over your brother in the day of his misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast so much in the day of their trouble.
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“The day of the Lord is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.
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But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and Jacob will possess his inheritance.
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Jacob will be a fire and Joseph a flame; Esau will be stubble, and they will set him on fire and destroy him. There will be no survivors from Esau.” The Lord has spoken.
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This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan will possess the land as far as Zarephath; the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the towns of the Negev.
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Deliverers will go up on Mount Zion to govern the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will be the Lord’s.
