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Abdias
chapter 1
1
The
vision of Abdias. Thus saith the Lord God to Edom: We have heard a rumour from
the Lord, and he hath sent an ambassador to the nations: Arise, and let us rise
up to battle against him.
2 Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou
art exceeding contemptible.
3 The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who
dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who
sayest in thy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground ?
4 Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou
set thy nest among the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.
5 If thieves had gone in to thee, if robbers by night,
how wouldst thou have held thy peace? would they not have stolen till they had
enough ? if the grapegatherers had come in to thee, would they not have left
thee at the least a cluster?
6 How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out
his hidden things?
7 They have sent thee out even to the border: all the
men of thy confederacy have deceived thee: the men of thy peace have prevailed
against thee: they that eat with thee shall lay snares under thee: there is no
wisdom in him.
8 Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, destroy the
wise out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau ?
9 And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid,
that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.
10 For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy
brother Jacob, confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever.
11 In the day when thou stoodest against him, when
strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates,
and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.
12 But thou shalt not look on in the day of thy
brother, in the day of his leaving his country: and thou shalt not rejoice over
the children of Juda, in the day of their destruction: and thou shalt not
magnify thy mouth in the day of distress.
13 Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of my people
in the day of their ruin: neither shalt thou also look on in his evils in the
day of his calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against his army in the day
of his desolation.
14 Neither shalt thou stand in the crossways to kill
them that flee: and thou shalt not shut up them that remain of him in the day
of tribulation.
15 For the day of the Lord is at hand upon all nations:
as thou hast done, so shall it be done to thee: he will turn thy reward upon
thy own head.
16 For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so all
nations shall drink continually: and they shall drink, and sup up, and they
shall be as though they were not.
17 And in mount Sion shall be salvation, and it shall
be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess those that possessed them.
18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the
house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble: and they shall be
kindled in them, and shall devour them: and there shall be no remains of the
house of Esau, for the Lord hath spoken it.
19 And they that are toward the south, shall inherit
the mount of Esau, and they that are in the plains, the Philistines: and they
shall possess the country of Ephraim, and the country of Samaria: and Benjamin
shall possess Galaad.
20 And the captivity of this host of the children of
Israel, all the places of the Chanaanites even to Sarepta: and the captivity of
Jerusalem that is in Bospho- rus, shall possess the cities of the south.
21 And saviours shall come up into mount Sion to judge
the mount of Esau: and the kingdom shall be for the Lord.
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