Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/masters/texts/darby.lzh/OB.LZH/OB

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1:1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah
 concerning Edom: We have heard a report from Jehovah, and an
 ambassador is sent among the nations. Arise ye, and let us rise
 up against her in battle.
1:2 Behold, I have made thee small among the nations; thou art
 greatly despised.
1:3 The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, thou that
 dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high;
 -- he that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the
 ground?
1:4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set
 thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith
 Jehovah.
1:5 If thieves had come to thee, if robbers by night, (how art
 thou cut off!) would they not have stolen [till] they had had
 enough? If grape-gatherers had come to thee, would they not
 have left some gleanings?
1:6 How is Esau searched! his hidden things sought out!
1:7 All the men of thy confederacy have pushed thee to the
 border; the men that were at peace with thee have deceived
 thee, they have prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy
 bread have laid a snare under thee. There is no understanding
 in him.
1:8 Shall I not in that day, saith Jehovah, destroy the wise men
 out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
1:9 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end
 that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by
 slaughter.
1:10 Because of violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall
 cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
1:11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day
 that strangers carried away captive his substance, and
 foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon
 Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
1:12 But thou shouldest not have looked 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; nor have opened wide thy mouth in the day of
 distress.
1:13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people
 in the day of their calamity, nor have looked, even thou, on
 their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither
 shouldest thou have laid [hands] on their substance in the day
 of their calamity;
1:14 and thou shouldest not have stood on the crossway, to cut
 off those of his that did escape, nor have delivered up those
 remaining of him in the day of distress.
1:15 For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as
 thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy recompence
 shall return upon thine own head.
1:16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all
 the nations drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and shall
 swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
1:17 But upon mount Zion shall there be deliverance, and it
 shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their
 possessions.
1:18 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 Jehovah hath spoken
 [it].
1:19 And [they of] the south shall possess the mount of Esau;
 and they of the lowland the Philistines; yea, they shall
 possess the field of Ephraim and the field of Samaria; and
 Benjamin [shall possess] Gilead;
1:20 and the captives of this host of the children of Israel
 [shall possess] what belonged to the Canaanites, unto
 Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who [were] in
 Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
1:21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion, to judge the
 mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be Jehovah's.