OBADIAH

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The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning
Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among
the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against it for battle!" 2 I will surely make
you least among the nations; you shall be utterly despised. 3 Your proud heart
has deceived you, you that live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is in
the heights. You say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?" 4
Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars,
from there I will bring you down, says the LORD. 5 If thieves came to you, if
plunderers by night --how you have been destroyed!-- would they not steal only
what they wanted? If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave
gleanings? 6 How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures searched out! 7 All your
allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates
have prevailed against you; those who ate your bread have set a trap for you--
there is no understanding of it. 8 On that day, says the LORD, I will destroy
the wise out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau. 9 Your warriors shall
be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone from Mount Esau will be cut off. 10 For
the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you,
and you shall be cut off forever. 11 On the day that you stood aside, on the day
that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast
lots for Jerusalem, you too were like one of them. 12 But you should not have
gloated over your brother on the day of his misfortune; you should not have
rejoiced over the people of Judah on the day of their ruin; you should not have
boasted on the day of distress. 13 You should not have entered the gate of my
people on the day of their calamity; you should not have joined in the gloating
over Judah's disaster on the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his
goods on the day of his calamity. 14 You should not have stood at the crossings
to cut off his fugitives; you should not have handed over his survivors on the
day of distress. 15 For the day of the LORD is near against all the nations. As
you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own
head. 16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, all the nations around you
shall drink; they shall drink and gulp down, and shall be as though they had
never been. 17 But on Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall
be holy; and the house of Jacob shall take possession of those who dispossessed
them. 18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and
the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there
shall be no survivor of the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken. 19 Those of
the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the
Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and
Benjamin shall possess Gilead. 20 The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah
shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are
in Sepharad shall possess the towns of the Negeb. 21 Those who have been saved
shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the
Lord's.
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