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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Obadiah 1 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/obadiah/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" 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they want.And people who harvest grapesalways leave some unpicked.But, Edom, you are doomed!6Everything you treasure mostwill be taken from you.7Your allies can't be trusted.They will force you outof your own country.And your best friendswill trick and trap you,even before you know it.8Edom, when this happens,I, the Lord, will destroyall your marvelous wisdom.9Warriors from the city of Teman<a href="#fn" id="link_Obad.1.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> will be terrified,and you descendants of Esau<a href="#fn" id="link_Obad.1.9!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> will be wiped out.<h3 class="s1">The Lord Condemns Edom's Cruelty</h3>10You were cruel to your relatives,the descendants of Jacob.<a href="#fn" id="link_Obad.1.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> Now you will be destroyed,disgraced forever.11You stood there and watchedas foreigners entered Jerusalemand took what they wanted.In fact, you were no betterthan those foreigners.12Why did you celebratewhen such a dreadful disasterstruck your relatives?Why were you so pleasedwhen everyone in Judahwas suffering?13They are my people,and you were cruel to them.You went through their towns,sneering and stealingwhatever was left.14In their time of torment,you ambushed refugeesand handed them overto their attackers.<h3 class="s1">The Lord Will Judge the Nations</h3>15The day is comingwhen I, the Lord,will judge the nations.And, Edom, you will pay in fullfor what you have done.16I forced the people of Judah<a href="#fn" id="link_Obad.1.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> to drink the wine of my angeron my sacred mountain.Soon the neighboring nationsmust drink their fill—then vanish without a trace.<h3 class="s1">Victory for Israel</h3>17The Lord's people who escapewill go to Mount Zion,and it will be holy.Then Jacob's descendantswill capture the land of thosewho took their land.18Israel<a href="#fn" id="link_Obad.1.18!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> will be a fire,and Edom will be strawgoing up in flames.The Lord has spoken!19The people of Israelwho live in the Southern Desertwill take the land of Edom.Those who live in the hillswill capture Philistia,Ephraim, and Samaria.And the tribe of Benjaminwill conquer Gilead.20Those who return from captivitywill control Phoeniciaas far as Zarephath.<a href="#fn" id="link_Obad.1.20!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> Captives from Jerusalemwho were taken to Sepharad<a href="#fn" id="link_Obad.1.20!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> will capture the townsof the Southern Desert.21Those the Lord has savedwill live on Mount Zionand rule over Edom.<a href="#fn" id="link_Obad.1.21!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> Then the kingdom will belongto the Lord.</div> </div> <a name="fn"></a> Footnotes: <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">message: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “vision.”</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">mountain fortress: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “rocky cliff,” which sounds like “Sela,” the capital of Edom, a fortress city built on a mountain.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Teman: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A famous city in Edom.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">descendants of Esau: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The people of Edom were descendants of Esau, the brother of Jacob (Israel).</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">descendants of Jacob: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Jacob and Esau were brothers (see the note on Esau at verse 9).</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">16 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">I forced … Judah: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “I will force the people of Edom.”</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">18 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Israel: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “The descendants of Jacob and of Joseph.”</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">20 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Those who return … Zarephath: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">20 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Sepharad: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Possibly the city of Sardis, the capital of Lydia, a country north and west of Media. This would refer to those captives from Judah who had been taken beyond the kingdom of Babylonia.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">21 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Those the <char style="nd">Lord</char> … Edom: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “Leaders on (from) Mount Zion will save the people and rule over Edom.”</char></note></div></div> <div align="center">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®) © 2006 American Bible Society. All rights reserved. Bible text from the Contemporary English Version 2nd Edition (CEV®) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.cev.bible">www.cev.bible</a>. 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