Bible (Jewish Publication Society 1917)/Obadiah
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OBADIAH
- 1The vision of Obadiah.
- Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom:
- We have heard a message from the Lord,
- And an ambassador is sent among the nations:
- 'Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.'
- 2Behold, I make thee small among the nations;
- Thou art greatly despised.
- 3The pride of thy heart hath beguiled thee,
- O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock,
- Thy habitation on high;
- That sayest in thy heart.
- 'Who shall bring me down to the ground?'
- 4Though thou make thy nest as high as the eagle,
- And though thou set it among the stars,
- I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
- 5If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night—
- How art thou cut off!—
- Would they not steal till they had enough?
- If grape-gatherers came to thee,
- Would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
- 6How is Esau searched out!
- How are his hidden places sought out!
- 7All the men of thy confederacy
- Have conducted thee to the border;
- The men that were at peace with thee
- Have beguiled thee, and prevailed against thee;
- They that eat thy bread lay a snare under thee,
- In whom there is no discernment.
- 8Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord,
- Destroy the wise men out of Edom,
- And discernment out of the mount of Esau?
- 9And thy mighty men, Teman, shall be dismayed,
- To the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter,
- 10For the violence done to thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee,
- And thou shalt be cut off for ever.
- 11In the day that thou didst stand aloof,
- 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.
- 12But thou shouldest not have gazed 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;
- Neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly
- In the day of distress.
- 13Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of My people
- In the day of their calamity;
- Yea, thou shouldest not have gazed on their affliction
- In the day of their calamity,
- Nor have laid hands on their substance
- In the day of their calamity.
- 14Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway,
- To cut off those of his that escape;
- Neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his
- That did remain in the day of distress.
- 15For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations;
- As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee;
- Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.
- 16For 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.
- 17But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape,
- And it shall be holy;
- And the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
- 18And 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 the Lord hath spoken.
- 19And they of the South shall posses 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.
- 20And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel,
- That are among the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath,
- And the captivity of Jerusalem, that is in Sepharad,
- Shall posses the cities of the South.
- 21And saviours shall come up on mount Zion
- To judge the mount of Esau;
- And the kingdom shall be the Lord's.