Obadiah

The vision of Obadiah.

Thus saith the Lord God ^aconcerning Edom;

^bcWe 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.

^2cBehold, I have made thee small among the heathen:

Thou art greatly despised.

^3cThe pride of thine heart hath ^mdeceived thee,

Thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose ^dhabitation is high;

^eThat saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

^4ceThough thou exalt thyself as the eagle,

And ^efgthough thou set thy nest among the stars,

^gThence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

^5hIf thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou ⁱcut off!)

Would they not have stolen till they had enough?

^hIf the grape-gatherers came to thee,

^kWould they not leave some grapes?

^6lHow are the things of Esau searched out!

How are his hid things sought up!

⁷All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border:

The men that were at peace with thee have ^mdeceived thee, and prevailed against thee;

ⁿThey that eat thy bread have laid ^oa wound under thee:

^pThere is none understanding in him.

^8qShall I not ^rin that day, saith the Lord,

Even destroy ^pthe wise men out of Edom,

And ^punderstanding out of ^sthe mount of Esau?

⁹And ^tthy mighty men, O ^puTeman, shall be dismayed,

To the end that every one of ^sthe mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

^10vFor thy ^wviolence against ^xthy brother Jacob shame ^wshall cover thee,

And ^ythou shalt be cut off for ever.

^11vIn 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 ^acast lots upon Jerusalem,

Even thou wast as one of them.

¹²But thou shouldest not have ^blooked on ^cthe day of thy brother in the day ^dthat he became a stranger;

Neither shouldest thou have ^erejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction;

Neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

¹³Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people ^fin the day of their calamity:

Yea, thou shouldest not have ^blooked on their affliction in the day of their calamity,

^gNor have ^hlaid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;

¹⁴Neither shouldest thou have stood in ⁱthe crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape;

Neither shouldest thou have delivered up ^kthose of his that did remain in the day of distress.

^15lmFor the day of the Lord is near ^mupon all the heathen:

ⁿAs thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee;

^oThy reward shall return upon thine own head.

¹⁶For ^pas ye have drunk upon ^qmy holy mountain,

So ^pshall all the heathen drink continually,

Yea, ^pthey shall drink, and they shall swallow down,

And ^rthey shall be as though they had not been.

¹⁷But ^supon mount Zion ^tshall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness;

And ^tuthe house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

¹⁸And the house of Jacob ^vshall be a fire,

And the house of Joseph ^va flame,

And the house of Esau ^wfor stubble,

And they shall ^xkindle in them, and ^vdevour them;

And ^ythere shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau;

For the Lord hath spoken it.

¹⁹And they of ^zthe south ^ashall possess ^bthe mount of Esau;

And ^cthey of ^zthe plain the Philistines:

And they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of ^dSamaria:

And Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

²⁰And ^athe captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto ^eZarephath;

And the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad,

Shall possess the cities of ^zthe south.

²¹And ^fsaviours shall come up on ^gmount Zion to judge ^bthe mount of Esau;

And ^hthe kingdom shall be the Lord’s.