The Holy Bible, containing the Old & New Testament & the Apocrypha/Volume 2/Obadiah
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OBADIAH
The vision of Obadiah.
- THUS saith the Lord God concerning Edom;
- We have heard a rumour from the Lord,
- And an ambassador is sent among the heathen,
- Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.
- Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen:
- Thou art greatly despised.
- The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee,
- 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 exalt thyself as the eagle,
- And though thou set thy nest among the stars,
- Thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.
- If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!)
- Would they not have stolen till they had enough?
- If the grapegatherers came to thee,
- Would they not leave some grapes?
- How are the things of Esau searched out!
- How are his hidden things sought up!
- All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border:
- The men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee;
- They that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee:
- There is none understanding in him.
- Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord,
- Even 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 of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
- For thy violence against 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 the strangers carried away captive his forces,
- And foreigners entered into his gates,
- And cast lots upon Jerusalem,
- Even thou wast as one of them.
- But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger;
- 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.
- Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity;
- 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;
- And they of the plain the Phihstines:
- And they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria:
- And Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
- And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath;
- And the captivity of Jerusalem, which is 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 the Lord's.