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15 Edom, I will make you become unimportant.
    Everyone will hate you.
16 Edom, you made other nations afraid,
    so you thought you were important.
But your pride has fooled you.
    You live in caves, high on the cliff.
    Your home is high in the hills.
But even if you build your home as high as an eagle’s nest,
    I will bring you down from there.”
This is what the Lord said.

17 “Edom will be destroyed.
    People will be shocked to see the destroyed cities.
    They will whistle from amazement at the destroyed cities.

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15 “Now I will make you small among the nations,
    despised by mankind.
16 The terror you inspire
    and the pride(A) of your heart have deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rocks,(B)
    who occupy the heights of the hill.
Though you build your nest(C) as high as the eagle’s,
    from there I will bring you down,”
declares the Lord.
17 “Edom will become an object of horror;(D)
    all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff
    because of all its wounds.(E)

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