among the nations, [saying], Gather yourselves together,
and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
049:015 For, behold, I have made you small among the nations,
and despised among men.
049:016 As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you,
O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height
of the hill: though you should make your nest as high
as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
049:017 Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it.
049:018 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor
cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there,
neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
049:019 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan
against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run
away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it:
for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is
the shepherd who will stand before me?
049:020 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken
against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against
the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away,
[even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make
their habitation desolate over them.
049:021 The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry,
the noise which is heard in the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}.
049:022 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread
out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty
men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman
in her pangs.
049:023 Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard
evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea;
it can't be quiet.
049:024 Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee,
and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have
taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
049:025 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
049:026 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all
the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day,
says Yahweh of Armies.
049:027 I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall
devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.
049:028 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise you,
go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.
049:029 Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry
away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels,
and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side!
049:030 Flee you, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants
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