16You think you''re so great--strutting across the stage of history, Living high in the impregnable rocks, acting like king of the mountain. You think you''re above it all, don''t you, like an eagle in its aerie? Well, you''re headed for a fall. I''ll bring you crashing to the ground." GOD''s Decree.
Jeremiah 49 delivers oracles of judgment against five of Judah's neighbors: Ammon, Edom, Damascus (Syria), Kedar (Arabia), and Elam. Each oracle follows a pattern familiar from the previous chapter: a declaration of coming destruction, often by military invasion, grounded in the
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