Bible (American Standard)/Obadiah

Obadiah
==Chapter 1==
 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah
concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from Jehovah, and an
ambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Arise ye, and
let us rise up against her in battle. 
 Behold, I have made
thee small among the nations: thou art greatly despised. 
 The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, O thou that dwellest
in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith
in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 
 Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though thy nest be
set among the stars, I will bring thee down from thence, saith
Jehovah. 
 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night (how
art thou cut off!), would they not steal [only] till they had
enough? if grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave
some gleaning grapes? 
 How are [the things of] Esau
searched! how are his hidden treasures sought out! 
 All the
men of thy confederacy have brought thee on thy way, even to the
border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee,
and prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy bread lay a
snare under thee: there is no understanding in him. 
 Shall
I not in that day, saith Jehovah, destroy the wise men out of
Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? 
 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. 
 For the violence done to thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover
thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. 
 In the day that
thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that strangers
carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his
gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of
them. 
 But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the
day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children of Judah
in the day of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the
day of distress. 
 Enter not into the gate of my people in
the day of their calamity; yea, look not thou on their
affliction in the day of their calamity, neither lay ye [hands]
on their substance in the day of their calamity. 
 And
stand thou not in the crossway, to cut off those of his that
escape; and deliver not up those of his that remain in the day
of distress. 
 For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the
nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy
dealing shall return upon thine own head. 
 For as ye have
drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink
continually; yea, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall
be as though they had not been. 
 But in mount Zion there
shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house
of Jacob shall possess their possessions. 
 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 burn among them,
and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining to the
house of Esau; for Jehovah hath spoken it. 
 And they of
the South shall possess the mount of Esau, and they of the
lowland the Philistines; and they shall possess the field of
Ephraim, and the field of Samaria; and Benjamin [shall possess]
Gilead. 
 And the captives of this host of the children of
Israel, that are [among] the Canaanites, [shall possess] even
unto Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, that are in
Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South. 
 And
saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau;
and the kingdom shall be Jehovah's.
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