3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you dweller in the refuges of the rock [Petra, Edom’s capital], whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, Who can bring me down to the ground?

4 Though you mount on high as the eagle and though you set your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the Lord.

5 If thieves came to you, if robbers by night — how you are brought to nothing! — would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes for gleaning? [But this ravaging was done by God, not men.] ⓒ