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The Holy
Bible
Obadiah
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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