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{\MTB The Book of
\par }{\MT Obadiah

\par }\OneChap {\PP \VerseOne{1}The
vision
of
Obadiah.
This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
about
Edom:
We
have
had
word
from
the
Lord,
and
a representative
has
been
sent
among
the
nations,
saying,
Up!
and
let
us
make
war
against
her.
\VS{2}See,
I
have
made
you
small
among
the
nations:
you
are
much
looked
down on.
\VS{3}You
have
been
tricked
by
the
pride
of
your
heart,
O
you
whose living-place
is
in
the cracks
of
the
rock,
whose house
is
high up;
who
has
said
in
his
heart,
Who
will
make
me
come
down
to
earth?
\VS{4}Though
you
go
up
on
high
like
an
eagle,
though
your house
is
placed
among
the
stars,
I
will
make
you
come
down
from
there,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{5}If
thieves
came, attacking
you
by
night, (how
are
you
cut
off!) would
they
not
go
on
taking till
they
had
enough?
if men
came cutting
your grapes would
they
take
them all?
\VS{6}How are
the things of
Esau
searched out!
how are
his secret stores looked for!
\VS{7}All
the
men
who
were united
with
you
have
been false
to
you,
driving
you
out
to
the edge
of
the
land:
the
men
who
were
at
peace
with
you
have
overcome
you;
they
have
taken
their heritage
in
your
place.
\VS{8}Will
I
not,
in
that
day,
says
the
Lord,
take away
the
wise
men
out
of
Edom,
and
wisdom
out
of
the
mountain
of
Esau?
\VS{9}And
your
men
of war, O
Teman,
will
be overcome
with fear,
so
that
every
one
of
them
may
be
cut
off
from
the
mountain
of
Esau.
\VS{10}Because
you
were
the cause
of
violent death
and
because
of
your cruel behaviour
to
your
brother
Jacob,
you
will
be
covered
with
shame
and
will
be
cut
off
for
ever.
\VS{11}Because
you
were
there watching
when men
from
other lands
took
away
his
goods,
and
strange men
came
into
his doors,
and
put
the
fate
of
Jerusalem
to
the decision
of chance;
you
were
like
one
of
them.
\VS{12}Do
not
see
with
pleasure
your brother's evil
day,
the
day
of
his
fate,
and
do
not
be
glad over
the
children
of
Judah
on
the
day
of
their
destruction,
or
make
wide
your
mouth
on
the
day
of
trouble.
\VS{13}Do
not
go
into
the doors
of
my
people
on
the
day
of
their downfall;
do
not
be
looking
on
their
trouble
with
pleasure
on
the
day
of
their downfall,
or
put
your hands
on
their
goods
on
the
day
of
their downfall.
\VS{14}And
do
not
take
your
place
at
the cross-roads, cutting
off
those
of
his
people
who get away;
and
do
not give
up
to
their haters
those
who
are
still
there
in
the
day
of
trouble.
\VS{15}For
the
day
of
the
Lord
is coming quickly
on
all
nations:
as
you
have
done
it
will
be
done
to
you;
the reward
of
your
acts
will
come
on
your
head.
\VS{16}For
as
you
have
been
drinking
on
my
holy
mountain,
so
will
all
the
nations
go
on
drinking
without end;
they
will
go
on
drinking
and
the wine
will
go
down
their throats,
and
they
will
be
as
if
they
had
never
been.
\VS{17}But
in
Mount
Zion some
will
be kept safe,
and
it
will
be
holy;
and
the children
of
Jacob
will
take
their heritage.
\VS{18}And
the children
of
Jacob
will
be
a
fire
and
those
of
Joseph
a
flame,
and
the children
of
Esau dry stems
of grass, burned
up
by
them till
all
is
gone:
and
there
will
be
no
people living
in
Esau;
for
the
Lord
has
said
it.
\VS{19}And
they
will
take
the
South,
and
the
lowland,
and
the
country
of
Ephraim,
and
Gilead,
as
their heritage.
\VS{20}And
those
of
the
children
of
Israel
who
were
the
first
to
be
taken away
as prisoners,
will
have
their heritage
among
the
Canaanites
as
far
as
Zarephath;
and
those
who
were
taken away
from
Jerusalem,
who
are
in
Sepharad,
will
have
the
towns
of
the
South.
\VS{21}And
those
who
have
been kept
safe
will
come
up
from
Mount
Zion
to
be
judges
of
the
mountain
of
Esau;
and
the
kingdom
will
be
the Lord's.
\par }