Obad 1
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The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord YHWH concerning Edom: We have heard tidings
from YHWH, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Arise you, and let
us rise up against her in battle.
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Behold, I have made you small among the nations: you are greatly despised.
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The pride of your heart has deceived you, O you that dwell in the clefts of the rock,
whose habitation is high; that says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
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Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest be set among the stars,
I will bring you down from there, says YHWH.
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If thieves came to you, if robbers by night (how are you cut off!), would they not
steal [only] till they had enough? if grape-gatherers came to you, would they not
leave some gleaning grapes?
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How are [the things of] Esau searched! how are his hidden treasures sought out!
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All the men of your confederacy have brought you on your way, even to the border:
the men that were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you;
[they that eat] your bread lay a snare under you: there is no understanding in him.
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Shall I not in that day, says YHWH, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding
out of the mount of Esau?
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And your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one may be
cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter.
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For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall
be cut off for ever.
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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 upon Jerusalem,
even you were as one of them.
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But look not you on the day of your 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.
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Enter not into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, look not you
on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither lay you [hands] on their
substance in the day of their calamity.
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And stand you 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.
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For the day of YHWH is near upon all the nations: as you have done, it shall be done
to you; your dealing shall return upon your own head.
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For as you 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.
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But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the
house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
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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 YHWH has spoken it.
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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.
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And the captives of this host of the children of Israel, that are [among] the Canaanites,
[shall possess] even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, that are in Sepharad,
shall possess the cities of the South.
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And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom
shall be YHWH`s.