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Obadiah 1

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Edom falls
1The vision of Obadiah.
The LORD God proclaims concerning Edom:
We have heard a message from the LORD
a messenger has been sent among the nations:
“Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!”
2Look now, I will make you of little importance among the nations;
you will be totally despised.
3Your proud heart has tricked you—
you who live in the cracks of the rock,
whose dwelling is high above.
You who say in your heart,
“Who will bring me down to the ground?”
4Though you soar like the eagle,
though your nest is set among the stars,
I will bring you down from there,
says the LORD.
Edom is robbed
5If thieves approach you,
if robbers by night—how you’ve been devastated!—
wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?
If those who gather grapes came to you,
wouldn’t they leave some grapes?
6How Esau has been looted,
his treasures taken away!
7All those who were your allies
have driven you to the border.
Those who were on your side tricked you
and triumphed over you.
They are setting your own bread as a trap under you,#1.7 Heb uncertain
but you don’t see it coming.
8Won’t I on that day, says the LORD,
destroy the wise from Edom
and understanding from Mount Esau?
9Your warriors will be shattered, Teman,
and everyone from Mount Esau will be eliminated.
Edom’s misdeeds
10Because of the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob,
shame will cover you,
and you will be destroyed forever.
11You stood nearby,
strangers carried off his wealth,
and foreigners entered his gates
and cast lots for Jerusalem;
you too were like one of them.
12But you should have taken no pleasure over your brother
on the day of his misery;
you shouldn’t have rejoiced over the people of Judah
on the day of their devastation;
you shouldn’t have bragged
on their day of hardship.
13You shouldn’t have entered the gate of my people
on the day of their defeat;
you shouldn’t have even looked on his suffering
on the day of his disaster;
you shouldn’t have stolen his possessions
on the day of his distress.
14You shouldn’t have waited on the roads
to destroy his escapees;
you shouldn’t have handed over his survivors
on the day of defeat.
15The day of the LORD is near
against all the nations.
As you have done, so it will be done to you;
your actions will make you suffer!
16Just as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
so will all the nations around you drink;
they will drink and swallow quickly,
and they will be like they’ve never been before.
Edom’s punishers
17But on Mount Zion there will be those who escape,
and it will be holy;
and the house of Jacob will drive out those who drove them out.
18The house of Jacob will be a fire,
the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau straw;
they will burn them up completely,
and there will be no one left of the house of Esau,
for the LORD has spoken.
19Those of the arid southern plain will possess Mount Esau,
and those of the western foothills, the land of the Philistines;
they will possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria,
and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
20Those who remain of the Israelites
will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath;
and those left from Jerusalem and who are now living in Sepharad
will possess the cities of the arid southern plain.
21The deliverers will go up to Mount Zion
to rule Mount Esau,
and the kingdom will be the LORD’s.

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