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88 lines
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# Chapter 1
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1 The vision of Obadiah.
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Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom
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(We have heard a report from the Lord,
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And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying,
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“Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle”):
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2 “Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
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You shall be greatly despised.
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3 The pride of your heart has deceived you,
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You who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
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Whose habitation is high;
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You who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
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4 Though you ascend as high as the eagle,
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And though you set your nest among the stars,
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From there I will bring you down,” says the Lord.
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5 “If thieves had come to you,
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If robbers by night—
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Oh, how you will be cut off!—
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Would they not have stolen till they had enough?
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If grape-gatherers had come to you,
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Would they not have left some gleanings?
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6 “Oh, how Esau shall be searched out!
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How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!
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7 All the men in your confederacy
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Shall force you to the border;
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The men at peace with you
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Shall deceive you and prevail against you.
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Those who eat your bread shall lay a trap for you.
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No one is aware of it.
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8 “Will I not in that day,” says the Lord,
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“Even destroy the wise men from Edom,
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And understanding from the mountains of Esau?
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9 Then your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed,
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To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau
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May be cut off by slaughter.
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10 “For violence against your brother Jacob,
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Shame shall cover you,
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And you shall be cut off forever.
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11 In the day that you stood on the other side—
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In the day that strangers carried captive his forces,
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When foreigners entered his gates
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And cast lots for Jerusalem—
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Even you were as one of them.
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12 “But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother
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In the day of his captivity;
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Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah
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In the day of their destruction;
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Nor should you have spoken proudly
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In the day of distress.
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13 You should not have entered the gate of My people
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In the day of their calamity.
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Indeed, you should not have gazed on their affliction
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In the day of their calamity,
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Nor laid hands on their substance
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In the day of their calamity.
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14 You should not have stood at the crossroads
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To cut off those among them who escaped;
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Nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained
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In the day of distress.
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15 “For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near;
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As you have done, it shall be done to you;
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Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.
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16 For as you drank on My holy mountain,
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So shall all the nations drink continually;
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Yes, they shall drink, and swallow,
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And they shall be as though they had never been.
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17 “But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance,
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And there shall be holiness;
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The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
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18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
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And the house of Joseph a flame;
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But the house of Esau shall be stubble;
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They shall kindle them and devour them,
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And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,”
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For the Lord has spoken.
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19 The South shall possess the mountains of Esau,
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And the Lowland shall possess Philistia.
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They shall possess the fields of Ephraim
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And the fields of Samaria.
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Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
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20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel
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Shall possess the land of the Canaanites
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As far as Zarephath.
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The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
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Shall possess the cities of the South.
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21 Then saviors shall come to Mount Zion
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To judge the mountains of Esau,
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And the kingdom shall be the Lord’s. |