 1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a message from the Lord, and a messenger is sent among the nations: Rise up, even let us rise up against her for battle. 2 Behold, I have given you to be small among the nations. You are greatly despised. 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, dwelling in the clefts of the rock, his dwelling is lofty. Saying in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 4 Though you rise high like the eagle, and though you set your nest between the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the Lord. 5 If thieves came to you, if destroyers by night how you have been cut off., would they not have stolen until they had enough? If the grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? 6 How Esau is searched out. His hidden things are sought out. 7 All the men of your covenant have dismissed you to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and have overcome you. They are setting your bread as a snare under you. There is no understanding in them. 8 Shall I not in that day even destroy the wise out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau, says the Lord? 9 Your mighty ones, O Teman, shall be afraid, so that each man from the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. 10 Shame shall cover you from the violence against your brother Jacob, and you shall be cut off forever. 11 On the day of your standing on the other side, on the day that the strangers were capturing his force, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them. 12 But you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day that he became a stranger. Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their ruin. Nor should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress. 13 You should not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Also, you should not have looked on his evil in the day of their calamity. Nor should you have sent out against his force in the day of his calamity. 14 Nor should you have stood on the crossways to cut off those of him who escaped. Nor should you have shut up his survivors in the day of distress. 15 For the day of the Lord is near on all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you. Your reward will return upon your head. 16 For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink forever. Yes, they shall drink and they shall swallow and they shall be as though they had not been. 17 But upon Mount Zion will be those who escaped. It must be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their own possessions. 18 The house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame. The house of Esau will be for stubble. They will kindle in them and burn them up. No survivor will be to the house of Esau. For the Lord has spoken it. 19 Those of the south will possess the mountain of Esau and the low country of the Philistines. They will possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria and Benjamin will possess Gilead. 20 The exiles of this army will go to the children of Israel who will possess the land of the Canaanites to Zarephath. Even the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the south. 21 Deliverers will go up onto the mountain of Zion to judge the mountain of Esau. The kingdom will be to the Lord.
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