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49.4 :Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys,
 * Thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter?
 * That didst trust in thy treasures:
 * 'Who shall come unto me?'
 * Behold, I will bring a terror upon thee,
 * Saith the Lord of hosts,
 * From all that are round about thee;
 * And ye shall be driven out every man right forth,
 * And there shall be none to gather up him that wandereth.
 * But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon,
 * Saith the.

Of Edom.


 * Thus saith the of hosts:
 * Is wisdom no more in Teman?
 * Is counsel perished from the prudent?
 * Is their wisdom vanished?
 * Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep,
 * O inhabitants of Dedan;
 * For I do bring the calamity of Esau upon him,
 * The time that I shall punish him.
 * If grape-gatherers came to thee,
 * Would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
 * If thieves by night,
 * Would they not destroy till they had enough?
 * But I have made Esau bare,
 * I have uncovered his secret places,
 * And he shall not be able to hide himself;
 * His seed is spoiled, and his brethren,
 * And his neighbours, and he is not.
 * Leave thy fatherless children, I will rear them,
 * And let thy widows trust in Me.

For thus saith the : Behold, they to whom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink. For I have sworn by Myself, saith the, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.


 * I have heard a message from the ,
 * And an ambassador is sent among the nations:
 * 'Gather yourselves together, and come against her,
 * And rise up to the battle.'
 * For, behold, I make thee small among the nations,
 * And despised among men.
 * Thy terribleness hath deceived thee,
 * Even the pride of thy heart,
 * O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock,
 * That holdest the height of the hill;
 * Though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle,
 * I will bring thee down from thence, saith the.
 * And Edom shall become an astonishment;
 * Every one that passeth by it
 * Shall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
 * As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah
 * And the neighbour cities thereof, saith the ,
 * No man shall abide there,
 * Neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
 * Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan
 * Against the strong habitation;