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Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We 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.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation <i>is</i> high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Though thou exalt <i>thyself</i> as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave <i>some</i> grapes?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If thieves came to you, if plunderers came by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">How are <i>the things</i> of Esau searched out! <i>how</i> are his hidden things sought up!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee <i>even</i> to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, <i>and</i> prevailed against thee; <i>they that eat</i> thy bread have laid a wound under thee: <i>there is</i> none understanding in him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">All your allies have driven you to your border; those at peace with you have deceived you; they have prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you— you have no understanding.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise <i>men</i> out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Will I not on that day, declares the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And thy mighty <i>men</i>, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For <i>thy</i> violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">In 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 cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou <i>wast</i> as one of them.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; do not boast in the day of distress.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid <i>hands</i> on their substance in the day of their calamity;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; do not gloat over his disaster in the day of his calamity; do not loot his wealth in the day of his calamity.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do not stand at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives; do not hand over his survivors in the day of distress.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For the day of the LORD <i>is</i> near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, <i>so</i> shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be <i>any</i> remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken <i>it</i>.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And <i>they of</i> the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and <i>they of</i> the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin <i>shall possess</i> Gilead.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel <i>shall possess</i> that of the Canaanites, <i>even</i> unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which <i>is</i> in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The exiles of this host of the people of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/obadiah/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">King James Bible, text courtesy of <a href="http://bibleprotector.com/">BibleProtector.com</a>.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. 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