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Thou art greatly despised.

³The 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?'

⁴Though 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 Lord.

⁵If 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?

⁶How is Esau searched out!

How are his hidden places sought out!

⁷All 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.

⁸Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord,

Destroy the wise men out of Edom,

And discernment out of the mount of Esau?

⁹And thy mighty men, Teman, shall be dismayed,

To the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter,

¹⁰For the violence done to thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee,

And thou shalt be cut off for ever.

¹¹In 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.

¹²But 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.

¹³Thou 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.

¹⁴Neither 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.

 

¹⁵For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations;

As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee;

Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.

¹⁶For as ye have drunk upon My holy mountain,

So shall all the nations drink continually,

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