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If grape gatherers came to you,
    would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
If thieves came by night,
    they would destroy until they had enough.
10 But I have made Esau bare,
    I have uncovered his secret places
    so that he will not be able to hide himself.
His seed is devastated, and his brothers, and his neighbors,
    and he is no more.
11 Leave your fatherless children behind. I will preserve them alive;
    and let your widows trust in Me.

12 For thus says the Lord: They whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunk. And are you the one who shall go unpunished altogether? You will not go unpunished, but you will surely drink of it. 13 For I have sworn by Myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all the cities will become perpetual wastes.

14 I have heard a message from the Lord,
    and an ambassador has been sent to the nations:
“Gather together, and come against her,
    and rise up to the battle!”

15 For I will make you small among the nations,
    and despised among men.
16 As for the terror of you,
    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 make your nest as high as the eagle,
    I will bring you down from there,
    says the Lord.

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