Jeremiah 49:7

 Jeremiah 49:7 says, Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?   The next country that God spoke about was Edom.  God asked if any wisdom was left jn Teman.  When people do not acknowledge God, there can be no wisdom.  Verse eight adds, Flee, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.  God said that they would be punished as Esau had.  Esau was punished because of his failure to truly fo)low God with all his heart and for allowing things of the world that brought him momentary satisfaction to become most important to him.  The Edomites, Esau's descendants were going to at last be judged,, because they were same way as Esau had been.  Verse nine asks, If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.  God asked if did not those who gathered grapes leave a gleaning and if did not even thieves leave something behind.  Verse ten states, But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.  God then said because of their sins that nothing was going to be left of the people of Edom.  There will be nothing left of those who do not accept salvation through faith in Christ in God's kingdom.   Verse eleven declares, Leave thy fatherless children, I will  preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.  God said that He would protect the fatherless children and the widows.   God will likewise take care of those we leave behind after we die if we and they put our faith 8n Him.  Verse twelve declares, For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.  God said that the people of Edom would bear the responsibility for their sins.  Veree thirteen adds, For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.  God said that He had sworn by His own nature that this punishment was coming.  Verse fourteen states, I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.  Verse fifteen adds, For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.  God said that He would make the people of Edom small among the heathen and despised by men.  The Edomites, the descendants of Esau, should have been following God, but they weren't.  Many people today who should find it easy to acknowledge God because of their families simply refuse to do so, and one day God's judgment will fall on them.  Verse sixteen says, Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.  God said that they might feel safe in their hiding places, but there was no safe place for them.  Verse seventeen adds, Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.  God said that everyone would marvel at the destruction of Edom.  Verse eighteen continues, As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.  God said the destruction of Edom would be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.   Verse nineteen states, Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?  God asked who could stand before Him in battle,  and the answer is no one.  Verse twenty adds, Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.  Verse twenty-one continues, The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.  God said that everyone would hear of the fall of Edom.  Verse twenty-two concludes, Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.  God said that when this invading army came that the men of Edom who thought they were great would have the heart of a woman in her pangs.  So will everyone who has stood against God lose all their strength when God's judgment comes.