| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 10 | For thy violence against
thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for
ever. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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; |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 17 | But upon mount Zion shall be
deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess
their possessions. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 21 | And saviours
shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall
be the LORD's. |
