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- OBADIAH:
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- CHAPTER 1
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- 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.
-
- 2. Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art
- greatly despised.
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- 6. How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden
- things sought up!
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- 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; that they eat thy bread have laid a
- wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 10. For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover
- thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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;
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 17. But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be
- holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 21. And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount
- of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
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