| 001:001
| 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. |
| 001:002 | Behold,
I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised. |
| 001:003 | 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? |
| 001:004 | 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. |
| 001:005 | 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? |
| 001:006 | How
are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up! |
| 001:007 | 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. |
| 001:008 | 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? |
| 001:009 | 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. |
| 001:010 | For
thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt
be cut off for ever. |
| 001:011 | 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. |
| 001:012 | 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. |
| 001:013 | 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;
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| 001:014 | 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. |
| 001:015 | 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. |
| 001:016 | 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. |
| 001:017 | But
upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the
house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. |
| 001:018 | 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. |
| 001:019 | 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. |
| 001:020 | 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. |
| 001:021 | And
saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom
shall be the LORD's. |