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19 Look, like a lion comes up from the thicket of the Jordan to a pasture that grows year round,[a] so I’ll drive them[b] away from her in an instant, and I’ll appoint whomever is chosen over her. Indeed, who is like me? Who gives me counsel? Who is the shepherd who will stand against me?” 20 Therefore, hear the plan that the Lord has made against Edom, and the strategy that he devised against the inhabitants of Teman. Surely he will drag the little ones of the flock away. Surely their pasture will be desolate because of them. 21 The earth will quake at the sound of their fall. A cry—it’s her voice—is heard at the Reed[c] Sea.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:19 Lit. a perpetual pasture
  2. Jeremiah 49:19 So LXX; Heb. him; i.e. the Edomites
  3. Jeremiah 49:21 So MT; LXX lacks Reed