Obadiah:1

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* THE VISION of Obadiah . Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom : We have heard a message from the LORD , and an ambassador is sent among the nations : 'Arise ye , and let us rise up against her in battle .' * Behold , I make thee small among the nations ; thou art greatly despised . * The pride of thy heart hath beguiled thee , O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock , thy habitation on high ; that sayest in thy heart : 'Who shall bring me down to the ground ?' * Though thou make thy nest as high as the eagle , and though thou set it among the stars , I will bring thee down from thence , saith the LORD . * If thieves came to thee , if robbers by night--how art thou cut off !--would they not steal till they had enough ? If grape-gatherers came to thee , would they not leave some gleaning grapes ? * How is Esau searched out ! How are his hidden places sought out ! * All the men of thy confederacy have conducted thee to the border ; the men that were at peace with thee have beguiled thee , and prevailed against thee ; they that eat thy bread lay a snare under thee , in whom there is no discernment . * Shall I not in that day , saith the LORD , destroy the wise men out of Edom , and discernment out of the mount of Esau ? * And thy mighty men , O Teman , shall be dismayed , to the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter . * For the violence done to thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee , and thou shalt be cut off for ever . * In the day that thou didst stand aloof , in the day that strangers carried away his substance , and foreigners entered into his gates , and cast lots upon Jerusalem , even thou wast as one of them . * But thou shouldest not have gazed on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster , 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 gazed 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 escape ; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress . * For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations ; as thou hast done , it shall be done unto thee ; thy dealing shall return upon thine own head . * For as ye have drunk upon My holy mountain , so shall all the nations drink continually , yea , they shall drink , and swallow down , and shall be as though they had not been . * But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape , and it shall be holy ; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions . * 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 . * And they of the South shall possess the mount of Esau , and they of the Lowland the Philistines ; and they shall possess the field of Ephraim , and the field of Samaria ; and Benjamin shall possess Gilead . * And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel , that are among the Canaanites , even unto Zarephath , and the captivity of Jerusalem , that is in Sepharad , shall possess the cities of the South . * And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau ; and the kingdom shall be the LORD 'S .

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