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3.3 KiB
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98 lines
3.3 KiB
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# Chapter 1
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1 The vision of Obadiah.
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This is what the Lord God has said about Edom:
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We have heard a message from the Lord;
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an envoy has been sent among the nations:
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“Rise up, and let’s go to war against her.”
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2 Look, I will make you insignificant
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among the nations;
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you will be deeply despised.
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3 Your arrogant heart has deceived you,
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you who live in clefts of the rock
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in your home on the heights,
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who say to yourself,
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“Who can bring me down to the ground?”
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4 Though you seem to soar like an eagle
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and make your nest among the stars,
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even from there I will bring you down.
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This is the Lord’s declaration.
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5 If thieves came to you,
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if marauders by night—
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how ravaged you would be!—
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wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?
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If grape harvesters came to you,
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wouldn’t they leave a few grapes?
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6 How Esau will be pillaged,
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his hidden treasures searched out!
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7 Everyone who has a treaty with you
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will drive you to the border;
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everyone at peace with you
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will deceive and conquer you.
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Those who eat your bread
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will set a trap for you.
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He will be unaware of it.
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8 In that day—
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this is the Lord’s declaration—
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will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom
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and those who understand
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from the hill country of Esau?
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9 Teman, your warriors will be terrified
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so that everyone from the hill country of Esau
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will be destroyed by slaughter.
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10 You will be covered with shame
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and destroyed forever
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because of violence done to your brother Jacob.
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11 On the day you stood aloof,
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on the day strangers captured his wealth,
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while foreigners entered his city gate
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and cast lots for Jerusalem,
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you were just like one of them.
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12 Do not gloat over your brother
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in the day of his calamity;
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do not rejoice over the people of Judah
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in the day of their destruction;
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do not boastfully mock
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in the day of distress.
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13 Do not enter my people’s city gate
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in the day of their disaster.
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Yes, you—do not gloat over their misery
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in the day of their disaster,
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and do not appropriate their possessions
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in the day of their disaster.
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14 Do not stand at the crossroads
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to cut off their fugitives,
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and do not hand over their survivors
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in the day of distress.
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15 For the day of the Lord is near,
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against all the nations.
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As you have done, it will be done to you;
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what you deserve will return on your own head.
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16 As you have drunk on my holy mountain,
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so all the nations will drink continually.
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They will drink and gulp down
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and be as though they had never been.
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17 But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion,
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and it will be holy;
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the house of Jacob will dispossess
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those who dispossessed them.
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18 Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,
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and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,
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but the house of Esau will be stubble;
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Jacob will set them on fire and consume Edom.
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Therefore no survivor will remain
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of the house of Esau,
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for the Lord has spoken.
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19 People from the Negev will possess
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the hill country of Esau;
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those from the Judean foothills will possess
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the land of the Philistines.
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They will possess
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the territories of Ephraim and Samaria,
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while Benjamin will possess Gilead.
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20 The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah
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and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath
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as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
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will possess the cities of the Negev.
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21 Saviors will ascend Mount Zion
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to rule over the hill country of Esau,
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and the kingdom will be the Lord’s. |