1 Chronicles
Bible, King James Version
Obadiah
Obad.1
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1] The vision of Obadiah. 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.
[
2] Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art
greatly despised.
[
3] The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee,
thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that
saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
[
4] Though
thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars,
thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
[
5] 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
some grapes?
[
6] How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his
hidden things sought up!
[
7] All the men of thy confederacy have
brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have
deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a
wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.
[
8] Shall I not
in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and
understanding out of the mount of Esau?
[
9] And thy mighty men, O
Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be
cut off by slaughter.
[
10] For thy violence against thy brother Jacob
shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
[
11] 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 wast as one of them.
[
12] 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.
[
13] 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 hands on their
substance in the day of their calamity;
[
14] 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.
[
15] For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen:
as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon
thine own head.
[
16] For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so
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.
[
17] But
upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house
of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
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18] 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
any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
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19]
And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the
Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of
Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
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20] And the captivity of
this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even
unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall
possess the cities of the south.
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21] And saviours shall come up on
mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
