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Jeremiah 49:13-19 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

13. For I have sworn by myself,” declares Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become as a horror, as a disgrace, as a waste, and as a curse. And all her towns will be everlasting sites of ruins.”

14. I have heard a message from Yahweh, and a messenger has been sent among the nations. “Gather and come against her, and rise for the battle.”

15. “For look, I will make you small among the nations, despised by the humankind.

16. Your terror has deceived you, the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, you who seize the height of the hill. Though you make your nest high like the eagle, from there I will bring you down,” declares Yahweh.

17. “And Edom will become as a horror, everyone who passes by it will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its blows.

18. As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors,” says Yahweh, “no one will live there, and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in it.

19. Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan to a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream. So I will chase him away hurriedly from it. And whoever is chosen I will appoint over it. For who is like me, and who can summon me? And who is this, the shepherd who can stand before me?”