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Obadiah 1 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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Thus saith the Lord God to Idumea; I have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent forth a message to the nations.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Arise ye, and let us rise up against her to war.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Behold, I have made thee small among the Gentiles: thou art greatly dishonoured. The pride of thine heart has elated thee, dwelling <i>as thou dost</i> in the holes of the rocks, <i>as one that</i> exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If thou shouldest mount up as the eagle, and if thou shouldest make thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If thieves came in to thee, or robbers by night, where wouldest thou have been cast away? would they not have stolen <i>just</i> enough for themselves? and if grape-gatherers went in to thee, would they not leave a gleaning?<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>How has Esau been searched out, and <i>how</i> have his hidden things been detected?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They sent thee to thy coasts: all the men of thy covenant have withstood thee; thine allies have prevailed against thee, they have set snares under thee: they have no understanding.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>In that day, saith the Lord, I will destroy the wise men out of Idumea, and understanding out of the mount of Esau.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And thy warriors from Thaeman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Because of the slaughter and the sin <i>committed against</i> thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>From the day that thou stoodest in opposition <i>to him</i>, in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of strangers; nor shouldest thou have rejoiced against the children of Juda in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have boasted in the day of <i>their</i> affliction.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Neither shouldest thou have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet shouldest thou have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor shouldest thou have attacked their host in the day of their perishing.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Neither shouldest thou have stood at the opening of their passages, to destroy utterly those of them that were escaping; neither shouldest thou have shut up his fugitives in the day of affliction.<p> <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">The Deliverance of Israel<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For the day of the Lord is near upon all the Gentiles: as thou have done, so shall it be <i>done</i> to thee: thy recompense shall be returned on thine <i>own</i> head.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For as thou hast drunk upon my holy mountain, <i>so</i> shall all the nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But on mount Sion there shall be deliverance, and there shall be a sanctuary; and the house of Jacob shall take for an inheritance those that took them for an inheritance.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau <i>shall be</i> for stubble; and <i>Israel</i> shall flame forth against them, and shall devour them, and there shall not be a corn-field <i>left</i> to the house of Esau; because the Lord has spoken.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And they <i>that dwell</i> in the south shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they in the plain the Philistines: and they shall inherit the mount of Ephraim, and the plain of Samaria, and Benjamin, and the land of Galaad.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And this <i>shall be</i> the domain of the captivity of the children of Israel, the land of the Chananites as far as Sarepta; and the captives of Jerusalem <i>shall inherit</i> as far as Ephratha; they shall inherit the cities of the south.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And they that escape shall come up from mount Sion, to take vengeance on the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../amos/9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Amos 9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Amos 9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jonah/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jonah 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jonah 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>