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.
02 Behold, I have made thee small among the
heathen: thou art greatly despised.
03 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?
04 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.
05 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?
06 How are the things of Esau searched out! how
are his hidden things sought up!
07 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.
08 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?
09 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.
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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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