
Obadiah

   {1:1} The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning
Edom: We have heard tidings from Jehovah, and an ambassador is sent
among the nations, [saying], Arise ye, and let us rise up against her
in battle. {1:2} Behold, I have made thee small among the nations: thou
art greatly despised. {1:3} The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee,
O 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?
{1:4} Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though thy nest be
set among the stars, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah.
{1:5} If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night (how art thou cut
off!), would they not steal [only] till they had enough? if
grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning
grapes? {1:6} How are [the things of] Esau searched! how are his hidden
treasures sought out! {1:7} All the men of thy confederacy have brought
thee on thy way, even to the border: the men that were at peace with
thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; [they that eat]
thy bread lay a snare under thee: there is no understanding in him.
{1:8} Shall I not in that day, saith Jehovah, destroy the wise men out
of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? {1:9} And thy
mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one may
be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter. {1:10} For the violence
done to thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be
cut off for ever. {1:11} In the day that thou stoodest on the other
side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and
foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even
thou wast as one of them. {1:12} But look not thou on the day of thy
brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children
of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the
day of distress. {1:13} Enter not into the gate of my people in the day
of their calamity; yea, look not thou on their affliction in the day of
their calamity, neither lay ye [hands] on their substance in the day of
their calamity. {1:14} And stand thou not in the crossway, to cut off
those of his that escape; and deliver not up those of his that remain
in the day of distress. {1:15} For the day of Jehovah is near upon all
the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy dealing
shall return upon thine own head. {1:16} For as ye have drunk upon my
holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yea, they
shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be as though they had not
been. {1:17} But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it
shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
{1:18} 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 burn among
them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining to the
house of Esau; for Jehovah hath spoken it. {1:19} And they of the South
shall possess the mount of Esau, and they of the lowland the
Philistines; and they shall possess the field of Ephraim, and the field
of Samaria; and Benjamin [shall possess] Gilead. {1:20} And the
captives of this host of the children of Israel, that are [among] the
Canaanites, [shall possess] even unto Zarephath; and the captives of
Jerusalem, that are in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South.
{1:21} And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of
Esau; and the kingdom shall be Jehovah's.




