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

\par }\OneChap {\PP \VerseOne{1}The
vision
of Abdias.
Thus saith
the
Lord
God
to
Edom:
We
have
heard
a rumour
from
the
Lord,
and
he hath
sent
an ambassador
to
the
nations:
Arise,
and
let
us
rise
up
to
battle
against
him.
\VS{2}Behold
I
have
made thee
small
among
the
nations: thou art
exceeding contemptible.
\VS{3}The
pride
of thy
heart hath lifted thee up,
who dwellest
in
the
clefts
of
the
rocks,
and settest up thy throne
on
high:
who sayest
in thy
heart:
Who
shall
bring
me
down
to
the
ground?
\VS{4}Though thou
be
exalted
as
an
eagle,
and
though thou
set thy
nest
among
the
stars: thence
will
I
bring thee
down, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{5}If
thieves
had
gone
in
to thee,
if
robbers
by
night,
how wouldst thou
have held thy peace? would
they
not
have
stolen till
they
had
enough?
if
the grapegatherers
had
come
in
to thee, would
they
not
have
left thee
at
the least
a cluster?
\VS{6}How have they
searched
Esau,
how have they sought out
his
hidden things?
\VS{7}They
have
sent thee
out
even
to
the
border:
all
the
men
of thy confederacy
have deceived thee:
the
men
of thy
peace
have
prevailed
against thee:
they
that eat
with thee
shall
lay snares
under thee:
there
is
no
wisdom
in
him.
\VS{8}Shall
not
I
in
that
day, saith
the
Lord,
destroy
the
wise
out
of
Edom,
and
understanding
out
of
the
mount
of
Esau?
\VS{9}And thy
valiant
men
of
the south
shall
be afraid,
that
man
may
be
cut
off
from
the
mount
of
Esau.
\VS{10}For
the slaughter,
and
for
the iniquity
against thy
brother
Jacob, confusion
shall
cover thee,
and thou shalt
perish
for
ever.
\VS{11}In
the
day
when thou stoodest
against
him,
when
strangers
carried
away
his
army
captive,
and
foreigners
entered
into
his
gates,
and
cast
lots
upon
Jerusalem: thou
also wast
as
one
of
them.
\VS{12}But thou shalt
not
look
on
in
the
day
of thy
brother,
in
the
day
of
his leaving
his country:
and thou shalt
not
rejoice over
the
children
of Juda,
in
the
day
of
their
destruction:
and thou shalt
not
magnify thy
mouth
in
the
day
of
distress.
\VS{13}Neither shalt thou
enter
into
the
gate
of
my
people
in
the
day
of
their ruin:
neither shalt thou
also
look
on
in
his evils
in
the
day
of
his
calamity:
and thou shalt
not
be
sent
out
against
his
army
in
the
day
of
his desolation.
\VS{14}Neither shalt thou
stand
in
the crossways
to
kill
them
that flee:
and thou shalt
not
shut
up
them
that
remain
of
him
in
the
day
of tribulation.
\VS{15}For
the
day
of
the
Lord
is
at
hand
upon
all
nations:
as thou hast
done,
so
shall
it
be
done
to thee:
he
will
turn thy reward
upon thy own
head.
\VS{16}For
as
you
have
drunk
upon
my
holy
mountain,
so
all
nations
shall
drink
continually:
and
they
shall
drink,
and sup
up,
and
they
shall
be
as
though
they
were
not.
\VS{17}And
in
mount Sion
shall
be salvation,
and
it
shall
be
holy,
and
the
house
of
Jacob
shall
possess
those
that
possessed
them.
\VS{18}And
the
house
of
Jacob
shall
be
a
fire,
and
the
house
of
Joseph
a
flame,
and
the
house
of
Esau
stubble:
and
they
shall
be kindled
in
them,
and
shall
devour
them:
and
there
shall
be
no
remains
of
the
house
of
Esau,
for
the
Lord hath
spoken
it.
\VS{19}And
they
that
are toward
the
south,
shall
inherit
the
mount
of
Esau,
and
they
that
are
in
the
plains,
the
Philistines:
and
they
shall
possess
the
country
of
Ephraim,
and
the
country
of
Samaria:
and
Benjamin
shall
possess Galaad.
\VS{20}And
the captivity
of
this
host
of
the
children
of
Israel,
all
the places
of
the Chanaanites
even
to Sarepta:
and
the captivity
of
Jerusalem
that
is
in Bosphorus,
shall
possess
the
cities
of
the
south.
\VS{21}And saviours
shall
come
up
into
mount Sion
to
judge
the
mount
of
Esau:
and
the
kingdom
shall
be
for
the
Lord.
\par }