Obadiah:1:1-14

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* 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 . * Behold , I have made thee small among the heathen : thou art greatly despised . * 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 ? * 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 . * 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 ? * How are the things of Esau searched out ! how are his hidden things sought up ! * 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 . * 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 ? * 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 . * For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee , and thou shalt be cut off for ever . * 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 sha #ar #, and cast lots upon Jerusalem , even thou wast as one of them . * 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 . * 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 ; * 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 .

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