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- OBADIAH 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.
- OBADIAH 1:2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen:
- thou art greatly despised.
- OBADIAH 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?
- OBADIAH 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.
- OBADIAH 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?
- OBADIAH 1:6 How are {the things} of Esau searched out! {how} are
- his hidden things sought up!
- OBADIAH 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.
- OBADIAH 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?
- OBADIAH 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.
- OBADIAH 1:10 For {thy} violence against thy brother Jacob shame
- shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
- OBADIAH 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.
- OBADIAH 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.
- OBADIAH 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;
- OBADIAH 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.
- OBADIAH 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.
- OBADIAH 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.
- OBADIAH 1:17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there
- shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their
- possessions.
- OBADIAH 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}.
- OBADIAH 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.
- OBADIAH 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.
- OBADIAH 1:21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge
- the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.