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Chapter 1
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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. |
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Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou
art greatly despised. |
3
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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? |
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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. |
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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? |
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How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his
hidden things sought up! |
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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. |
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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? |
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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. |
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For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall
cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. |
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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. |
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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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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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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there
shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess
their possessions. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the
mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's. |
