15 “For behold, I will make you small among nations, despised among men. 16 The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD. 17 “Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
Jeremiah 49:15–17
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