12 For thus says the LORD;
13 For I have sworn by myself,
14 I have heard a rumor from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the nations, saying,
15 For, lo, I will make you small among the nations, and despised among men.
16 Your fierceness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, that hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,
17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: everyone that goes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.
18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighboring cities,