Obadiah
Chapter 1
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The vision of Obadiah.
Thus
said 'Adonay/Lord . . . Jehovah/God concerning Edom,
We
have heard a rumor from Jehovah/God,
and
an ambassador is sent among the heathen,
Arise
you all, and let us rise up against her in battle.
2 Behold, I have made you small among the heathen.
You are greatly despised.
3
The pride of your heart has deceived you,
you
who dwells in the clefts of the rock,
whose
habitation is high
who
says in his heart,
Who
shall bring me down to the ground?
4
"Though you exalt yourself as the eagle,
and
though you set your nest among the stars,
thence
will I bring you down," said Jehovah/God.
5
If thieves came to you, if robbers by night,
(how
are you cut off!)
would
they not have stolen
till
they had enough?
If
the grape-gatherers came to you,
would
they not leave some grapes?
6 How are the things of Esau searched out!
How are his hidden things sought up!
7
All the men of your confederacy
have
brought you even to the border.
The
men who were at peace with you have deceived you,
and
prevailed against you.
They who eat your bread have laid a wound under you.
There is none understanding in him.
8
Shall I not in that day, said Jehovah/God,
even
destroy the wise men out of Edom,
and
understanding out of the mount of Esau?
9
And your 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 your violence against your brother
Jacob
shame shall cover you,
and
you shall be cut off for ever.
11
In the day that you stood 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
you were as one of them.
12
But you should not have looked on the day of your brother
in
the day that he became a stranger;
neither
should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah
in
the day of their destruction.
Neither should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
13
You should not have entered into the gate
of
My people in the day of their calamity.
Yes,
you should 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 should you have stood in the crossway,
to
cut off those of his that did escape;
neither
should you have delivered up those of his
that
did remain in the day of distress.
15
For the day of Jehovah/God
is
near upon all the heathen.
As
you have done,
it
shall be done unto you.
Your reward shall return upon your own head.
16
For as you all have drunk 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.
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
Jehovah/God has 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 saviors shall come up on mount Zion
to
judge the mount of Esau
and
the kingdom shall be the Jehovah's/God's.
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