`Ovadyah, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} The vision of `Ovadyah. This is what the Lord GOD says about
Edom. We have heard news from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent
among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let's rise up against her in
battle. {1:2} Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are
greatly despised. {1:3} The pride of your heart has deceived you, you
who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who
says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?' {1:4}
Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set
among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.
{1:5} If thieves came to you, if robbers by night-- oh, what disaster
awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape
pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes? {1:6}
How Esav will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!
{1:7} All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even
to the border. The men who were at shalom with you have deceived you,
and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare
under you. There is no understanding in him.
{1:8} "Won't I in that day," says the LORD, "destroy the wise men
out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esav? {1:9} Your
mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be
cut off from the mountain of Esav by slaughter. {1:10} For the
violence done to your brother Ya`akov, shame will cover you, and you
will be cut off forever. {1:11} In the day that you stood on the other
side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and
foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Yerushalayim,
even you were like one of them. {1:12} But don't look down on your
brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the
children of Yehudah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak
proudly in the day of distress. {1:13} Don't enter into the gate of my
people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their
affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on
the day of their calamity. {1:14} Don't stand in the crossroads to cut
off those of his who escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain
in the day of distress. {1:15} For the day of the LORD is near all the
nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will
return upon your own head. {1:16} For as you have drunk on my holy
mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will
drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been. {1:17}
But in Mount Tziyon, there will be those who escape, and it will be
holy. The house of Ya`akov will possess their possessions. {1:18} The
house of Ya`akov will be a fire, the house of Yosef a flame, and the
house of Esav for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them.
There will not be any remaining to the house of Esav." Indeed, the
LORD has spoken.
{1:19} Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esav, and
those of the lowland, the Pelishtim. They will possess the field of
Efrayim, and the field of Shomron. Binyamin will possess Gil`ad.
{1:20} The captives of this host of the children of Yisra'el, who are
among the Kana`anim, will possess even to Tzarfat; and the captives of
Yerushalayim, who are in Sefarad, will possess the cities of the
Negev. {1:21} Saviors will go up on Mount Tziyon to judge the
mountains of Esav, and the kingdom will be the LORD's.
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