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| 1This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom—We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, “Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!”— | 1The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!” |
| 2“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised. | 2Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised. |
| 3The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’ | 3The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?” |
| 4Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD. | 4Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD. |
| 5“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? | 5If thieves came to you, if plunderers came by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? |
| 6But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out! | 6How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out! |
| 7All the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace with you will deceive and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you without your awareness of it. | 7All your allies have driven you to your border; those at peace with you have deceived you; they have prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you— you have no understanding. |
| 8In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau? | 8Will I not on that day, declares the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau? |
| 9Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter. | 9And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter. |
| 10Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever. | 10Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. |
| 11On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them. | 11On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them. |
| 12But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress. | 12But do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; do not boast in the day of distress. |
| 13You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster. | 13Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; do not gloat over his disaster in the day of his calamity; do not loot his wealth in the day of his calamity. |
| 14Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress. | 14Do not stand at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives; do not hand over his survivors in the day of distress. |
| 15For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head. | 15For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head. |
| 16For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed. | 16For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been. |
| 17But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will reclaim their possession. | 17But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions. |
| 18Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble—Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.” For the LORD has spoken. | 18The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and 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 for the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken. |
| 19Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau; those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead. | 19Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. |
| 20And the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev. | 20The exiles of this host of the people of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb. |
| 21The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD. | 21Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s. |
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