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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\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:1 }
The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”}
GOD\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:1 }
When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name.}
says
about
Edom.
We
have
heard
news
from
the
LORD,
and
an ambassador
is
sent amongst
the
nations,
saying, “Arise,
and let’s
rise
up
against
her
in
battle.
\VS{2}Behold,\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 1:2 }
“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.}
I
have
made
you
small amongst
the
nations.
You
are
greatly
despised.
\VS{3}The
pride
of
your
heart
has deceived
you,
you
who
dwell
in
the
clefts
of
the
rock,
whose habitation
is
high,
who
says
in
his
heart, ‘Who
will
bring
me
down
to
the
ground?’
\VS{4}Though
you mount
on
high
as
the
eagle,
and
though
your
nest
is
set amongst
the
stars,
I
will
bring
you
down
from
there,”
says
the
LORD.
\VS{5}“If
thieves
came
to
you,
if
robbers
by
night—oh,
what disaster awaits
you—wouldn’t
they
only
steal until
they
had
enough?
If
grape pickers
came
to
you, wouldn’t
they
leave
some
gleaning grapes?
\VS{6}How
Esau will be
ransacked!
How
his
hidden
treasures are sought out!
\VS{7}All
the
men
of
your alliance
have
brought
you
on
your
way,
even
to
the
border.
The
men
who
were
at
peace
with
you
have deceived
you,
and
prevailed
against
you. Friends
who eat
your
bread
lay
a snare
under
you.
There
is
no
understanding
in
him.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“Won’t
I
in
that
day”,
says
the
LORD, “destroy
the
wise
men
out
of
Edom,
and
understanding
out
of
the
mountain
of
Esau?
\VS{9}Your
mighty
men,
Teman,
will
be
dismayed,
to
the end
that
everyone
may
be
cut
off
from
the
mountain
of
Esau
by
slaughter.
\VS{10}For
the
violence done
to
your
brother
Jacob,
shame
will
cover
you,
and
you
will
be
cut
off
forever.
\VS{11}In
the
day
that
you
stood
on
the
other
side,
in
the
day
that
strangers
carried
away
his
substance
and
foreigners
entered
into
his
gates
and
cast
lots
for
Jerusalem,
even
you
were
like
one
of
them.
\VS{12}But
don’t
look down
on
your
brother
in
the
day
of
his disaster,
and
don’t
rejoice over
the
children
of
Judah
in
the
day
of
their
destruction.
Don’t
speak proudly
in
the
day
of
distress.
\VS{13}Don’t
enter
into
the
gate
of
my
people
in
the
day
of
their
calamity.
Don’t
look
down
on
their affliction
in
the
day
of
their
calamity,
neither seize
their
wealth
on
the
day
of
their
calamity.
\VS{14}Don’t
stand
in
the crossroads
to
cut
off
those
of
his
who
escape.
Don’t
deliver
up
those
of
his
who
remain
in
the
day
of
distress.
\VS{15}For
the
day
of
the
LORD
is
near
all
the
nations!
As
you
have
done,
it
will
be
done
to
you.
Your
deeds
will
return
upon
your own
head.
\VS{16}For
as
you
have
drunk
on
my
holy
mountain,
so
all
the
nations
will
drink
continually.
Yes,
they
will
drink, swallow
down,
and
will
be
as
though
they
had
not
been.
\VS{17}But
in
Mount
Zion,
there
will
be
those
who
escape,
and
it
will
be
holy.
The
house
of
Jacob
will
possess
their
possessions.
\VS{18}The
house
of
Jacob
will
be
a
fire,
the
house
of
Joseph
a
flame,
and
the
house
of
Esau
for
stubble.
They
will burn amongst
them
and
devour
them.
There
will
not
be
any remaining
to
the
house
of
Esau.”
Indeed,
the
LORD
has
spoken.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Those
of
the
South
will
possess
the
mountain
of
Esau,
and
those
of
the
lowland,
the
Philistines.
They
will
possess
the
field
of
Ephraim,
and
the
field
of
Samaria.
Benjamin
will
possess
Gilead.
\VS{20}The
captives
of
this
army
of
the
children
of
Israel,
who
are amongst
the
Canaanites,
will
possess
even
to
Zarephath;
and
the
captives
of
Jerusalem,
who
are
in
Sepharad,
will
possess
the
cities
of
the
Negev.
\VS{21}Saviours
will
go
up
on
Mount
Zion
to
judge
the
mountains
of
Esau,
and
the
kingdom
will
be
the
LORD’s.
\par }