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

\par }\OneChap {\PP \VerseOne{1}The
vision
of
Obadiah.
Thus saith
the
Lord
Jehovah
concerning
Edom:
We
have
heard
a
report
from
Jehovah,
and
an ambassador
is
sent
among
the
nations.
Arise ye,
and
let
us
rise
up
against
her
in
battle.
\VS{2}Behold,
I
have
made thee
small
among
the
nations; thou art
greatly
despised.
\VS{3}The
pride
of thy
heart hath deceived thee, thou
that dwellest
in
the
clefts
of
the
rock,
whose habitation
is
high; —
he
that saith
in
his
heart,
Who
shall
bring
me
down
to
the
ground?
\VS{4}Though thou exalt thyself
as
the
eagle,
and
though thou
set thy
nest
among
the
stars, thence
will
I
bring thee
down, saith
Jehovah.
\VS{5}If
thieves
had
come
to thee,
if
robbers
by
night, (how art thou
cut
off!) would
they
not
have
stolen [till]
they
had
had
enough?
If grape-gatherers
had
come
to thee, would
they
not
have
left
some
gleanings?
\VS{6}How
is
Esau
searched!
his
hidden things sought out!
\VS{7}All
the
men
of thy confederacy
have pushed thee
to
the
border;
the
men
that
were
at
peace
with thee
have deceived thee,
they
have
prevailed
against thee; [they
that eat] thy
bread
have
laid
a snare
under thee.
There
is
no
understanding
in
him.
\VS{8}Shall
I
not
in
that
day, saith
Jehovah,
destroy
the
wise
men
out
of
Edom,
and
understanding
out
of
the
mount
of
Esau?
\VS{9}And thy
mighty
men, O
Teman,
shall
be
dismayed,
to
the end
that
every
one
may
be
cut
off
from
the
mount
of
Esau
by
slaughter.
\VS{10}Because
of
violence
against thy
brother
Jacob,
shame
shall
cover thee,
and thou shalt
be
cut
off
for
ever.
\VS{11}In
the
day
that thou stoodest
on
the
other
side,
in
the
day
that
strangers
carried
away
captive
his
substance,
and
foreigners
entered
into
his
gates,
and
cast
lots
upon
Jerusalem,
even thou wast
as
one
of
them.
\VS{12}But thou shouldest
not
have
looked
on
the
day
of thy
brother
in
the
day
of
his disaster;
neither shouldest thou
have
rejoiced over
the
children
of
Judah
in
the
day
of
their
destruction;
nor
have opened
wide thy
mouth
in
the
day
of
distress.
\VS{13}Thou shouldest
not
have
entered
into
the
gate
of
my
people
in
the
day
of
their
calamity,
nor
have
looked,
even thou,
on
their affliction
in
the
day
of
their
calamity,
neither shouldest thou
have
laid [hands]
on
their
substance
in
the
day
of
their
calamity;
\VS{14}and thou shouldest
not
have
stood
on
the crossway,
to
cut
off
those
of
his
that
did
escape,
nor
have
delivered
up
those remaining
of
him
in
the
day
of
distress.
\VS{15}For
the
day
of
Jehovah
is
near
upon
all
the
nations:
as thou hast
done,
it
shall
be
done unto thee: thy recompence
shall
return
upon thine own
head.
\VS{16}For
as ye
have
drunk
upon
my
holy
mountain,
so
shall
all
the
nations
drink
continually;
yea,
they
shall
drink,
and
shall swallow
down,
and
they
shall
be
as
though
they
had
not
been.
\VS{17}But
upon
mount
Zion
shall
there
be
deliverance,
and
it
shall
be
holy;
and
the
house
of
Jacob
shall
possess
their
possessions.
\VS{18}And
the
house
of
Jacob
shall
be
a
fire,
and
the
house
of
Joseph
a
flame,
and
the
house
of
Esau
for
stubble;
and
they
shall
kindle
in
them
and
devour
them;
and
there
shall
not
be
any remaining
of
the
house
of
Esau:
for
Jehovah hath
spoken [it].
\VS{19}And [they
of]
the
south
shall
possess
the
mount
of
Esau;
and
they
of
the
lowland
the
Philistines; yea,
they
shall
possess
the
field
of
Ephraim
and
the
field
of
Samaria;
and
Benjamin [shall
possess]
Gilead;
\VS{20}and
the
captives
of
this
host
of
the
children
of
Israel [shall
possess]
what belonged
to
the
Canaanites, unto
Zarephath;
and
the
captives
of
Jerusalem,
who [were]
in
Sepharad,
shall
possess
the
cities
of
the
south.
\VS{21}And saviours
shall
come
up
on
mount
Zion,
to
judge
the
mount
of
Esau;
and
the
kingdom
shall
be Jehovah's.
\par }