The vision of Abdias. Thus saith the Lord God to Edom: We have heard a rumour from the Lord, and he hath sent an ambassador to the nations: Arise, and let us rise up to battle against him.

²Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art exceeding contemptible.

³The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest in thy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground?

⁴Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

⁵If thieves had gone in to thee, if robbers by night, how wouldst thou have held thy peace? would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers had come in to thee, would they not have left thee at the least a cluster?

⁶How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out his hidden things?

⁷They have sent thee out even to the border: all the men of thy confederacy have deceived thee: the men of thy peace have prevailed against thee: they that eat with thee shall lay snares under thee: there is no wisdom in him.

⁸Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, destroy the wise out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

⁹And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

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