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- The vision of Obadiah. This is
what the Sovereign LORD says about Edom-- We have heard a message from the
LORD: An envoy was sent to the nations to say, "Rise, and let us go
against her for battle"--
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- "See, I will make you
small among the nations; you will be utterly despised.
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- The pride of your heart has
deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on
the heights, you who say to yourself, `Who can bring me down to the ground?'
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- Though you soar like the eagle
and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,"
declares the LORD.
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- "If thieves came to you,
if robbers in the night-- Oh, what a disaster awaits you-- would they not
steal only as much as they wanted? If grape pickers came to you, would they
not leave a few grapes?
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- But how Esau will be
ransacked, his hidden treasures pillaged!
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- All your allies will force you
to the border; your friends will deceive and overpower you; those who eat
your bread will set a trap for you, but you will not detect it.
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- "In that day,"
declares the LORD, "will I not destroy the wise men of Edom, men of
understanding in the mountains of Esau?
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- Your warriors, O Teman, will
be terrified, and everyone in Esau's mountains will be cut down in the
slaughter.
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- Because of the violence
against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be
destroyed forever.
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- On the day you stood aloof
while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and
cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
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- You should not look down on
your brother in the day of his misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of
Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast so much in the day of their
trouble.
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- You should not march through
the gates of my people in the day of their disaster, nor look down on them
in their calamity in the day of their disaster, nor seize their wealth in
the day of their disaster.
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- You should not wait at the
crossroads to cut down their fugitives, nor hand over their survivors in the
day of their trouble.
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- "The day of the LORD is
near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds
will return upon your own head.
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- Just as you drank on my holy
hill, so all the nations will drink continually; they will drink and drink
and be as if they had never been.
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- But on Mount Zion will be
deliverance; it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will possess its
inheritance.
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- The house of Jacob will be a
fire and the house of Joseph a flame; the house of Esau will be stubble, and
they will set it on fire and consume it. There will be no survivors from the
house of Esau." The LORD has spoken.
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- People from the Negev will
occupy the mountains of Esau, and people from the foothills will possess the
land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,
and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
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- This company of Israelite
exiles who are in Canaan will possess [the land] as far as Zarephath; the
exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the towns of the
Negev.
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- Deliverers will go up on Mount
Zion to govern the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will be the LORD's.
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