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Rh :Thou art greatly despised.
 * The pride of thy heart hath beguiled thee,
 * O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock,
 * Thy habitation on high;
 * That sayest in thy heart.
 * 'Who shall bring me down to the ground?'
 * Though thou make thy nest as high as the eagle,
 * And though thou set it among the stars,
 * I will bring thee down from thence, saith the.
 * If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night—
 * How art thou cut off!—
 * Would they not steal till they had enough?
 * If grape-gatherers came to thee,
 * Would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
 * How is Esau searched out!
 * How are his hidden places sought out!
 * All the men of thy confederacy
 * Have conducted thee to the border;
 * The men that were at peace with thee
 * Have beguiled thee, and prevailed against thee;
 * They that eat thy bread lay a snare under thee,
 * In whom there is no discernment.
 * Shall I not in that day, saith the ,
 * Destroy the wise men out of Edom,
 * And discernment out of the mount of Esau?
 * And thy mighty men, Teman, shall be dismayed,
 * To the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter,
 * For the violence done to thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee,
 * And thou shalt be cut off for ever.
 * In the day that thou didst stand aloof,
 * In the day that strangers carried away his substance,
 * And foreigners entered into his gates,
 * And cast lots upon Jerusalem,
 * Even thou wast as one of them.
 * But thou shouldest not have gazed on the day of thy brother
 * In the day of his disaster,
 * Neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah
 * In the day of their destruction;
 * Neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly
 * In the day of distress.
 * Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of My people
 * In the day of their calamity;
 * Yea, thou shouldest not have gazed on their affliction
 * In the day of their calamity,
 * Nor have laid hands on their substance
 * In the day of their calamity.
 * Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway,
 * To cut off those of his that escape;
 * Neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his
 * That did remain in the day of distress.


 * For the day of the is near upon all the nations;
 * As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee;
 * Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.
 * For as ye have drunk upon My holy mountain,
 * So shall all the nations drink continually,