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- 1:1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning
- Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador
- is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against
- her in battle.
- 1:2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou
- art greatly despised.
- 1:3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that
- dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation [is] high;
- that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
- 1:4 Though thou exalt [thyself] as the eagle, and though thou
- set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down,
- saith the LORD.
- 1:5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art
- thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough?
- if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave [some]
- grapes?
- 1:6 How are [the things] of Esau searched out! [how] are his
- hidden things sought up!
- 1:7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee [even]
- to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have
- deceived thee, [and] prevailed against thee; [they that eat]
- thy bread have laid a wound under thee: [there is] none
- understanding in him.
- 1:8 Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the
- wise [men] out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of
- Esau?
- 1:9 And thy mighty [men], O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the
- end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by
- slaughter.
- 1:10 For [thy] violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall
- cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
- 1:11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the
- day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and
- foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon
- Jerusalem, even thou [wast] as one of them.
- 1:12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy
- brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest
- thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of
- their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly
- in the day of distress.
- 1:13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my
- people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not
- have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity,
- nor have laid [hands] on their substance in the day of their
- calamity;
- 1:14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to
- cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou
- have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of
- distress.
- 1:15 For the day of the LORD [is] near upon all the heathen:
- as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall
- return upon thine own head.
- 1:16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, [so] shall
- all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and
- they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had
- not been.
- 1:17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there
- shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their
- possessions.
- 1:18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of
- Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they
- shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be
- [any] remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken
- [it].
- 1:19 And [they of] the south shall possess the mount of Esau;
- and [they of] the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess
- the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin
- [shall possess] Gilead.
- 1:20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel
- [shall possess] that of the Canaanites, [even] unto Zarephath;
- and the captivity of Jerusalem, which [is] in Sepharad, shall
- possess the cities of the south.
- 1:21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the
- mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.