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Chapter 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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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