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Look, I am going to bring dread on you,”
declares[a] Lord Yahweh of hosts,
    “from all your surrounding neighbors.
And you will be scattered,
    each one before it,[b]
and there is no one who gathers the fugitives.[c]
Yet afterward[d] I will restore
    the fortunes[e] of the Ammonites,”[f] declares[g] Yahweh.

A Message Concerning Edom

Concerning Edom, thus says Yahweh of hosts:

“Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?
    Has counsel become lost from those who understand?
    Is their wisdom rotting?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:5 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Jeremiah 49:5 Literally “to the face of it”
  3. Jeremiah 49:5 Hebrew “fugitive”
  4. Jeremiah 49:6 Literally “after thus”
  5. Jeremiah 49:6 Hebrew “fortune”
  6. Jeremiah 49:6 Literally “sons of Ammon”
  7. Jeremiah 49:6 Literally “a declaration of”