Jeremiah 49:16

16 Your terror has deceived you, the pride of your heart, [O you who] dwell in the clefts of the rock, [you who] seize [the] height of [the] hill. Though you make your nest high like the eagle, from there I will bring you down," {declares} Yahweh.

Jeremiah 49:16 In-Context

14 I have heard a message from Yahweh, and a messenger has been sent among the nations. "Gather and come against her, and rise for the battle."
15 "For look, I will make you small among the nations, despised by the humankind.
16 Your terror has deceived you, the pride of your heart, [O you who] dwell in the clefts of the rock, [you who] seize [the] height of [the] hill. Though you make your nest high like the eagle, from there I will bring you down," {declares} Yahweh.
17 "And Edom will become as a horror, {everyone who passes by it} will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its blows.
18 As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors," says Yahweh, "{no one} will live there, and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in it.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Literally "a declaration of"
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