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{\MT Obadiah



\par }\OneChap {\SH God’s Judgment on Edom|Edom’s Approaching Destruction
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{\Q \VerseOne{1}The vision that Obadiah saw.

\par }{\Q The Lord
{\ND{God}} says this concerning Edom:

\par }{\SH God’s Judgment on Edom|Edom’s Approaching Destruction
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{\Q We have heard a report from the
{\ND{Lord}}.

\par }{\Q An envoy was sent among the nations, saying,

\par }{\Q “Arise! Let us make war against Edom!”


\par }{\Q \VS{2}The
{\ND{Lord}} says, “Look! I will make you a weak nation;

\par }{\Q you will be greatly despised!


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Your presumptuous heart has deceived you –

\par }{\Q you who reside in the safety of the rocky cliffs,

\par }{\Q whose home is high in the mountains.

\par }{\Q You think to yourself,

\par }{\Q ‘No one can bring me down to the ground!’


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Even if you were to soar high like an eagle,

\par }{\Q even if you were to make your nest among the stars,

\par }{\Q I can bring you down even from there!” says the
{\ND{Lord}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}“If thieves came to rob you during the night,

\par }{\Q they would steal only as much as they wanted!

\par }{\Q If grape pickers came to harvest your vineyards,

\par }{\Q they would leave some behind for the poor!

\par }{\Q But you will be totally destroyed!


\par }{\Q \VS{6}How the people of Esau will be thoroughly plundered!

\par }{\Q Their hidden valuables will be ransacked!


\par }{\Q \VS{7}All your allies will force you from your homeland!

\par }{\Q Your treaty partners will deceive you and overpower you.

\par }{\Q Your trusted friends will set an ambush for you

\par }{\Q that will take you by surprise!


\par }{\Q \VS{8}At that time,” the
{\ND{Lord}} says,

\par }{\Q “I will destroy the wise sages of Edom!

\par }{\Q the advisers from Esau’s mountain!


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Your warriors will be shattered, O Teman,

\par }{\Q so that everyone will be destroyed from Esau’s mountain!


\par }{\SH Edom’s Treachery Against Judah
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{\Q \VS{10}“Because you violently slaughtered your relatives, the people of Jacob,

\par }{\Q shame will cover you, and you will be destroyed forever.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}You stood aloof while strangers took his army captive,

\par }{\Q and foreigners advanced to his gates.

\par }{\Q When they cast lots over Jerusalem,

\par }{\Q you behaved as though you were in league with them.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}You should not have gloated when your relatives suffered calamity.

\par }{\Q You should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah when they were destroyed.

\par }{\Q You should not have boasted when they suffered adversity.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}You should not have entered the city of my people when they experienced distress.

\par }{\Q You should not have joined in gloating over their misfortune when they suffered distress.

\par }{\Q You should not have looted their wealth when they endured distress.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}You should not have stood at the fork in the road to slaughter those trying to escape.

\par }{\Q You should not have captured their refugees when they suffered adversity.


\par }{\SH The Coming Day of the Lord
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{\Q \VS{15}“For the day of the
{\ND{Lord}} is approaching for all the nations!

\par }{\Q Just as you have done, so it will be done to you.

\par }{\Q You will get exactly what your deeds deserve.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}For just as you have drunk on my holy mountain,

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

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

\par }{\Q they will be as though they had never been.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}But on Mount Zion there will be a remnant of those who escape,

\par }{\Q and it will be a holy place once again.

\par }{\Q The descendants of Jacob will conquer

\par }{\Q those who had conquered them.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}The descendants of Jacob will be a fire,

\par }{\Q and the descendants of Joseph a flame.

\par }{\Q The descendants of Esau will be like stubble.

\par }{\Q They will burn them up and devour them.

\par }{\Q There will not be a single survivor of the descendants of Esau!”

\par }{\Q Indeed, the
{\ND{Lord}} has spoken it.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}The people of the Negev will take possession of Esau’s mountain,

\par }{\Q and the people of the Shephelah will take

\par }{\Q possession of the land of the Philistines.

\par }{\Q They will also take possession of the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria,

\par }{\Q and the people of Benjamin will take possession of Gilead.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}The exiles of this fortress of the people of Israel

\par }{\Q will take possession of what belongs to

\par }{\Q the people of Canaan, as far as Zarephath,

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

\par }{\Q will take possession of the towns of the Negev.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}Those who have been delivered will go up on Mount Zion

\par }{\Q in order to rule over Esau’s mountain.

\par }{\PP Then the
{\ND{Lord}} will reign as King!


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