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{\MT Obadiah



\par }\OneChap {\SH The Destruction of Edom
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{\R (Jeremiah 49:7–22)

\par }{\MM \VerseOne{1}This is the vision of Obadiah:

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{\Q This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom—

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{\Q We have heard a message from the LORD;

\par }{\QB an envoy has been sent among the nations

\par }{\Q to say, “Rise up,

\par }{\QB and let us go to battle against her!”—


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{\Q \VS{2}“Behold, I will make you small among the nations;

\par }{\QB you will be deeply despised.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}The pride of your heart has deceived you,

\par }{\QB O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:3 }{\FT{Or in the retreats of Sela}}}

\par }{\QB whose habitation is the heights,

\par }{\Q who say in your heart,

\par }{\QB ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Though you soar like the eagle

\par }{\QB and make your nest among the stars,

\par }{\QB even from there I will bring you down,”


\par }{\QR declares the LORD.

\par }{\Q \VS{5}“If thieves came to you,

\par }{\QB if robbers by night—

\par }{\Q oh, how you will be ruined—

\par }{\QB would they not steal only what they wanted?

\par }{\Q If grape gatherers came to you,

\par }{\QB would they not leave some gleanings?


\par }{\Q \VS{6}But how Esau will be pillaged,

\par }{\QB his hidden treasures sought out!


\par }{\Q \VS{7}All the men allied with you

\par }{\QB will drive you to the border;

\par }{\Q the men at peace with you

\par }{\QB will deceive and overpower you.

\par }{\Q Those who eat your bread
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:7 }{\FT{Hebrew does not include Those who eat.}}}

\par }{\QB will set a trap for you

\par }{\QB without your awareness of it.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}In that day, declares the LORD,

\par }{\QB will I not destroy the wise men of Edom

\par }{\Q and the men of understanding

\par }{\QB in the mountains of Esau?


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Then your mighty men, O Teman,

\par }{\QB will be terrified,

\par }{\Q so that everyone in the mountains of Esau

\par }{\QB will be cut down in the slaughter.


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{\Q \VS{10}Because of the violence against your brother Jacob,

\par }{\QB you will be covered with shame

\par }{\QB and cut off forever.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}On the day you stood aloof

\par }{\QB while strangers carried off his wealth

\par }{\Q and foreigners entered his gate

\par }{\QB and cast lots for Jerusalem,

\par }{\QB you were just like one of them.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}But you should not gloat in that day,

\par }{\QB your brother’s day of misfortune,

\par }{\Q nor rejoice over the people of Judah

\par }{\QB in the day of their destruction,

\par }{\Q nor boast proudly
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 1:12 }{\FT{Hebrew nor enlarge your mouth}}}

\par }{\QB in the day of their distress.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}You should not enter the gate of My people

\par }{\QB in the day of their disaster,

\par }{\Q nor gloat over their affliction

\par }{\QB in the day of their disaster,

\par }{\Q nor loot their wealth

\par }{\QB in the day of their disaster.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Nor should you stand at the crossroads

\par }{\QB to cut off their fugitives,

\par }{\Q nor deliver up their survivors

\par }{\QB in the day of their distress.


\par }{\SH The Deliverance of Israel
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{\Q \VS{15}For the Day of the LORD is near

\par }{\QB for all the nations.

\par }{\Q As you have done, it will be done to you;

\par }{\QB your recompense will return upon your own head.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}For as you drank on My holy mountain,

\par }{\QB so all the nations will drink continually.

\par }{\Q They will drink and gulp it down;

\par }{\QB they will be as if they had never existed.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance,

\par }{\QB and it will be holy,

\par }{\Q and the house of Jacob

\par }{\QB will reclaim their possession.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,

\par }{\QB and the house of Joseph a burning flame;

\par }{\Q but the house of Esau will be stubble—

\par }{\QB Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it.

\par }{\Q Therefore no survivor will remain

\par }{\QB from the house of Esau.”


\par }{\QR For the LORD has spoken.

\par }{\Q \VS{19}Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau;

\par }{\QB those from the foothills
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 1:19 }{\FT{Hebrew Shephelah or lowlands; that is, the western foothills of Judea}}} will possess the land of the Philistines.

\par }{\Q They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,

\par }{\QB and Benjamin will possess Gilead.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}And the exiles of this host of the Israelites

\par }{\QB will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath;

\par }{\Q and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

\par }{\QB will possess the cities of the Negev.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}The deliverers will ascend
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:21 }{\FT{Or The deliverers will go up from; LXX Those being delivered will go up}}} Mount Zion

\par }{\QB to rule over the mountains of Esau.

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{\Q And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.

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