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Book of Obadiah
Country of
Descendants of Esaw, brother of Jacob, son of Issac.
Proud
1. The vision of Obadiah. Thus
ways the Lord God concerning
2. I will surely make you least among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.
3. Your proud heart has deceived you, you that live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is in the heights. You say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
4. Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down says the Lord.
Pillage and Slaughter Will Repay
5. If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night –how you have been destroyed!- would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not have gleanings?
6. How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures searched out!
7. All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; t hose who ate your bread have set a trap for you; those who ate your bread have set a trap for you –there is no understanding of it.
8. On that day, says the Lord, I
will destroy the wise out of
9. Your warriors shall be
shattered, O Teman, so that everyone from
10. For the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
11. On the day that you stood aside, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you too were like one of them.
12. But you should not have
gloated over your brother on the day of his misfortune; you should not have
rejoiced over the people of
13. You should not have entered
the gate of my people on the day of their calamity; you should not have joined
in the gloating over
14. You should not have stood at the crossings to cut off his fugitives; you should not have handed over his survivors on the day of distress.
15. For the day of the Lord is near against all nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
16. For as you have drunk on my hold mountain, all the nations around you shall drink; they shall be as though they had never been.
Israel’s Final Triumph
17. But on
18. The house of Jacob shall be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor of the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
19. Those of the Negeb shall
possess
20. The exiles of the Israelites
who are in Halah shall possess
21. Those who Have been saved
shall go up to
Things of Consider:
You reap what you sow.
Forgiveness to everyone
Deliverance comes to those who trust in the Lord.
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