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{\MT Ovadyah



\par }\OneChap {\PP \VerseOne{1}The chazon
{\ADD{(vision)}} of Ovadyah.

\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q Thus saith Adonoi
{\ND{Hashem}} concerning Edom:

\par }{\Q We have heard a report from
{\ND{Hashem}},

\par }{\Q and an envoy is sent among the Goyim,

\par }{\Q Arise ye, and let us rise up against her
{\ADD{(Edom)}} in battle.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Hinei, I have made thee small among the Goyim;

\par }{\Q thou art greatly despised.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}The zadon
{\ADD{(pride, presumption, arrogance)}} of thine lev
{\ADD{(heart)}} hath deceived thee,

\par }{\Q thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock,

\par }{\Q whose habitation is high;

\par }{\Q that saith in his lev:

\par }{\Q Who shall bring me down to the ground?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Though thou exalt thyself to soar as the nesher,

\par }{\Q and though thou set thy nest among the kokhavim
{\ADD{(stars)}},

\par }{\Q thence will I bring thee down,

\par }{\Q saith
{\ND{Hashem}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}If ganavim
{\ADD{(thieves)}} came to thee, if shodedei lailah
{\ADD{(robbers by night)}} —

\par }{\Q oh how art thou cut off!

\par }{\Q — would they not have stolen only till they had enough?

\par }{\Q If the grape gatherers came to thee,

\par }{\Q would they not leave some grapes?


\par }{\Q \VS{6}How is Esav searched out!

\par }{\Q How are his hidden treasures pillaged!


\par }{\Q \VS{7}All the men of thy alliance

\par }{\Q have forced thee and brought thee even to the border;

\par }{\Q the anshei shlomecha
{\ADD{(the men that were at peace with thee)}} have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee;

\par }{\Q they that eat thy lechem
{\ADD{(bread)}}

\par }{\Q have laid a mazor
{\ADD{(net, trap)}} under thee;

\par }{\Q there is none detecting it.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{8}Shall I not in that day, saith
{\ND{Hashem}},

\par }{\Q even destroy the chachamim
{\ADD{(wise men)}} out of Edom,

\par }{\Q and understanding out of the Har Esav?


\par }{\Q \VS{9}And thy gibborim
{\ADD{(mighty men)}}, O Teman, shall be dismayed and lose courage,

\par }{\Q to the end that every one of the Har Esav

\par }{\Q may be cut off by slaughter.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{10}For thy chamas against thy brother Ya'akov,

\par }{\Q bushah
{\ADD{(shame)}} shall cover thee,

\par }{\Q and thou shalt be cut off l'olam
{\ADD{(for ever)}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}In the day that thou stood aloof on the other side,

\par }{\Q in the day that the zarim
{\ADD{(strangers)}} carried away captive his forces,

\par }{\Q and foreigners entered into his gates,

\par }{\Q and cast lots for Yerushalayim,

\par }{\Q even thou wast as one of them.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}But thou shouldest not have gloated over the day

\par }{\Q of thy brother in the day of his misfortune;

\par }{\Q neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the Bnei Yehudah

\par }{\Q in the day of their destruction;

\par }{\Q neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly

\par }{\Q in the Yom Tzarah
{\ADD{(Day of Trouble)}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Thou shouldest not have entered into the sha'ar Ami
{\ADD{(gate of My people)}}

\par }{\Q in the day of their calamity;

\par }{\Q yea, thou shouldest not have looked down on their affliction

\par }{\Q in the day of their calamity,

\par }{\Q nor have laid hands on their substance

\par }{\Q in the day of their calamity;


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossroads,

\par }{\Q to cut off those of his that did escape;

\par }{\Q neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did survive

\par }{\Q in the Yom Tzarah.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{15}For the Yom
{\ND{Hashem}} is near upon all the Goyim:

\par }{\Q as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee:

\par }{\Q thy reward shall return upon thine own head.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}For as ye have drunk upon My Har Kodesh
{\ADD{(Holy Mountain)}},

\par }{\Q so shall all the Goyim drink continually;

\par }{\Q yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down,

\par }{\Q and they shall be as though they had not been.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}But upon Mount Tziyon shall be deliverance,

\par }{\Q and there shall be kodesh
{\ADD{(holiness)}};

\par }{\Q and the Beis Ya'akov shall possess their inheritances.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}And the Beis Ya'akov shall be an eish
{\ADD{(fire)}},

\par }{\Q and the Beis Yosef a flame,

\par }{\Q and the Beis Esav for stubble,

\par }{\Q and they shall kindle in them, and devour them;

\par }{\Q and there shall not be any remaining of the Beis Esav;

\par }{\Q for
{\ND{Hashem}} hath spoken.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{19}And they of the Negev shall possess Har Esav;

\par }{\Q and they of the Shefelah, the Philistines;

\par }{\Q and they shall possess the fields of Ephrayim,

\par }{\Q and the fields of Shomron;

\par }{\Q and Binyamin shall possess Gil'ad.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}And those of the Golus of Bnei Yisroel

\par }{\Q shall possess that of the Kena'anim, even unto Tzarphat;

\par }{\Q and those of the Golus of Yerushalayim, which is in Sepharad,

\par }{\Q shall possess the cities of the Negev.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}And Moshi'im
{\ADD{(Deliverers)}} shall come up on Mount Tziyon

\par }{\Q to judge the Har Esav;

\par }{\Q and HaMamlachah
{\ADD{(the Kingdom)}} shall be
{\ND{Hashem}}ʼs.

\par }