LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a wast, and a curse, and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes .
14 I have heard a rumour from the LORD , and an embassador is sent unto the heathen , say∣ing, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise to the battel r.
15 For lo, I will make thee small amongst the heathen, and despised among men .
16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and 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 LORD .
17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof .
18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Go∣morrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD: no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it .
19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from thee swelling of Jordan, against the habitation of the strong : but I will suddenly make him run away from her , and who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her ? for who is like me ? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me ?
20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom, and his purposes that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman : Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out , surely, he shall make their habitations desolate with them g.
21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall: at the cry, the noise thereof was heard in the Red-sea .
22 Behold, he shall come up and flie as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of E∣dom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs :
23 ¶ Concerning Damascus . Hamath is confounded, and Arpad : for they have heard evil tidings, they are faint-hearted, there is sor∣row on the sea, it cannot be quiet .
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth her self to flee , and fear hath seized on her : an∣guish and sorrowes have taken her, as a woman in travail .
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy ?
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts .