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- The next file is: OBADIAH
- 1:1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning
- Edom; We have heard a rumor from the LORD, and an embassador 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 thy 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 shalt exalt [thyself] as the eagle, and though
- thou shalt 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 grape-gatherers 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!
- 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] no 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 stoodst 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 shouldst not have looked on the day of thy brother
- in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldst thou
- have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their
- destruction; neither shouldst thou have spoken proudly in the
- day of distress.
- 1:13 Thou shouldst not have entered into the gate of my people
- in the day of their calamity; yes, thou shouldst 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 shouldst thou have stood in the cross-way, to cut
- off those of his that escaped; neither shouldst thou have
- delivered up those of his that remained 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 to thee: thy reward shall
- return upon thy own head.
- 1:16 For as ye have drank upon my holy mountain, [so] shall all
- the heathen drink continually, yes, 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] to Zarephath;
- and the captivity of Jerusalem, which [is] in Sepharad, shall
- possess the cities of the south.
- 1:21 And saviors shall come upon mount Zion to judge the mount
- of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.
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