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OBADIAH
- Yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity,
- Nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
- Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape;
- Neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
- For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen:
- As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee:
- Thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
- For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain,
- So shall all the heathen drink continually,
- Yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down,
- And they shall be as though they had not been.
- But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness;
- 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 kindle in them, and devour them;
- And there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau;
- For the Lord hath spoken it.
- And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau;
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