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Jeremiah 49:16

World English Bible

As for your terror,
the pride of your heart has deceived you,
O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
who hold the height of the hill,
though you should make your nest as high as the eagle,
I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

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Jeremiah 49:16 in other translations

As for thy terribleness, the pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, 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 Jehovah.

Jeremiah 49:16 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 49:16 in context

  1. 14I have heard news from Yahweh,
    and an ambassador is sent among the nations,
    saying, “Gather yourselves together!
    Come against her!
    Rise up to the battle!”
  2. 15“For, behold, I have made you small among the nations,
    and despised among men.
  3. 16As for your terror,
    the pride of your heart has deceived you,
    O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
    who hold the height of the hill,
    though you should make your nest as high as the eagle,
    I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
  4. 17“Edom will become an astonishment.
    Everyone who passes by it will be astonished,
    and will hiss at all its plagues.
  5. 18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh,
    “no man will dwell there,
    neither will any son of man live therein.