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1| The vision of Obdias. Thus saith the Lord God to Idumea; I have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent forth a message to the nations.
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2| Arise ye, and let us rise up against her to war.
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3| Behold, I have made thee small among the Gentiles: thou art greatly dishonoured. The pride of thine heart has elated thee, dwelling <i>as thou dost</i> in the holes of the rocks, <i>as one that</i> exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?
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4| If thou shouldest mount up as the eagle, and if thou shouldest make thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.
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5| If thieves came in to thee, or robbers by night, where wouldest thou have been cast away? would they not have stolen <i>just</i> enough for themselves? and if grape-gatherers went in to thee, would they not leave a gleaning?
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6| How has Esau been searched out, and <i> how</i> have his hidden things been detected?
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7| They sent thee to thy coasts: all the men of thy covenant have withstood thee; thine allies have prevailed against thee, they have set snares under thee: they have no understanding.
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8| In that day, saith the Lord, I will destroy the wise men out of Idumea, and understanding out of the mount of Esau.
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9| And thy warriors from Thaeman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.
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10| Because of the slaughter and the sin <i>committed against</i> thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
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11| From the day that thou stoodest in opposition <i>to him</i>, in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them.
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12| And thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of strangers; nor shouldest thou have rejoiced against the children of Juda in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have boasted in the day of <i>their</i> affliction.
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13| Neither shouldest thou have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet shouldest thou have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor shouldest thou have attacked their host in the day of their perishing.
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14| Neither shouldest thou have stood at the opening of their passages, to destroy utterly those of them that were escaping; neither shouldest thou have shut up his fugitives in the day of affliction.
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15| For the day of the Lord is near upon all the Gentiles: as thou have done, so shall it be <i>done</i> to thee: thy recompense shall be returned on thine <i>own</i> head.
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16| For as thou hast drunk upon my holy mountain, <i>so</i> shall all the nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not.
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17| But on mount Sion there shall be deliverance, and there shall be a sanctuary; and the house of Jacob shall take for an inheritance those that took them for an inheritance.
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18| And the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau <i>shall be</i> for stubble; and <i>Israel</i> shall flame forth against them, and shall devour them, and there shall not be a corn-field <i>left</i> to the house of Esau; because the Lord has spoken.
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19| And they <i>that dwell</i> in the south shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they in the plain the Philistines: and they shall inherit the mount of Ephraim, and the plain of Samaria, and Benjamin, and the land of Galaad.
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20| And this <i>shall be</i> the domain of the captivity of the children of Israel, the land of the Chananites as far as Sarepta; and the captives of Jerusalem <i>shall inherit</i> as far as Ephratha; they shall inherit the cities of the south.
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21| And they that escape shall come up from mount Sion, to take vengeance on the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s. Back top Next Presented by The Common Man's Prospective. Copyright© 1999-2010 Ernest C. Marsh
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