1 Scroll 11 The 12 Prophets (Obadiah).
The vision of Obadiah.
Thus says the Lord JeHoVaH 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.
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Behold, I have made Thee small among the heathen:
Thou are greatly despised.
3 The pride of Thy heart has deceived Thee,
Thou that dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high;
that said in his heart,
Who shall bring me down to the ground?
4 Though Thou shall exalt thyself as the eagle.
Though Thou shall set Thy nest among the stars,
thence will I bring Thee down, said the LORD.
5 If thieves came to Thee, if robbers by night, (how are Thou cut off)!
Would they not have stolen until they had enough?
If the grape-gatherers came to Thee, would they not leave some grapes?
6 How are the things of Esau searched out!
How are his hidden things sought!
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 no understanding in him.
8 Shall I not in that day, said the LORD,
even destroy the wise men out of Edom,
and understanding out of the Mount of Esau?
9 Thy mighty men, 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 shall be cut off forever.
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In the day that Thou 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 Thou were as one of them.
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But Thou should not have looked on the day of Thy brother in the day that he became a stranger;
neither should Thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction;
neither should Thou have magnify Thy mouth in the day of distress;
13 neither should Thou have entered into the gate of My people in the day of their calamity;
neither should Thou have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity,
neither should Thou have sent out against his force in the day of their calamity;
14 neither should Thou have stood in the cross-way, to cut off those of his that escaped;
neither should Thou have delivered up those of his that remained in the day of distress.
15 For the Day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen:
as Thou have done, it shall be done to Thee:
Thy reward shall return upon Thy own head.
16 For as ye have drank upon My Holy Mount,
so shall all the heathen drink continually,
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,
they shall kindle in them, and devour them;
there shall not be any remaining of the House of Esau;
for the LORD has spoken.
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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 to Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem,
which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
21 And saviours shall come upon Mount Zion,
to judge the Mount of Esau;
and the Kingdom shall be the LORD's.