mt1=OBDIAS p={c1}{v1}The vision of Obdias. Thus says the Lord God to Idumea; I have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent forth a message to the nations. {v2}Arise you°, and let us rise up against her to war. {v3}Behold, I have made you small amongst the Gentiles: you are greatly dishonoured. The pride of your heart has elated you, dwelling \add as you do\add* in the holes of the rocks, \add as one that\add* exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground? {v4}If you should mount up as the eagle, and if you should make your nest amongst the stars, thence will I bring you down, says the Lord. {v5}If thieves came in to you, or robbers by night, where would you have been cast away? would they not have stolen \add just\add* enough for themselves? and if grape gatherers went in to you, would they not leave a gleaning? {v6}How has Esau been searched out, and \add how\add* have his hidden things been detected? {v7}They sent you to your coasts: all the men of your covenant have withstood you; your allies have prevailed against you, they have set snares under you: they have no understanding. {v8}In that day, says the Lord, I will destroy the wise men out of Idumea, and understanding out of the mount of Esau. {v9}And your warriors from Thaeman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau. {v10}Because of the slaughter and the sin \add committed against\add* your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever. {v11}From the day that you stood in opposition \add to him\add*, in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, you also were as one of them. {v12}And \f + \fr 1:12  \ft Or, look not you, etc. \f* you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day of strangers; nor should you have rejoiced against the children of Juda in the day of their destruction; neither should you have boasted in the day of \add their\add* affliction. {v13}Neither should you have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet should you have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor should you have attacked their host in the day of their perishing. {v14}Neither should you have stood at the opening of their passages, to destroy utterly those of them that were escaping; neither should you have shut up his fugitives in the day of affliction. {v15}For the day of the Lord is near upon all the Gentiles: as you have done, so shall it be \add done\add* to you: your recompense shall be returned on your \add own\add* head. {v16}For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, \add so\add* shall all the nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not. {v17}But on mount Sion there shall be deliverance, and there shall be a sanctuary; and the house of Jacob shall take for an inheritance those that took them for an inheritance. {v18}And the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau \add shall be\add* for stubble; and \add Israel\add* shall flame forth against them, and shall devour them, and there shall not be a corn-field \add left\add* to the house of Esau; because the Lord has spoken. {v19}And they \add that dwell\add* in the \f + \fr 1:19  \ft The Gr. is the Hebrew word. \f* south shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they in the plain the Philistines: and they shall inherit the mount of Ephraim, and the plain of Samaria, and Benjamin, and the land of Galaad. {v20}And this \add shall be\add* the domain of the captivity of the children of Israel, the land of the Chananites as far as Sarepta; and the captives of Jerusalem \add shall inherit\add* as far as Ephratha; they shall inherit the cities of the south. {v21}And they that escape shall come up from mount Sion, to take vengeance on the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.