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Obadiah 1

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Obadiah 1 Bible text

WEB: 1WEB

The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom. We have heard news from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.

ASV: 1ASV

The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from Jehovah, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

WEB: 2WEB

Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

ASV: 2ASV

Behold, I have made thee small among the nations: thou art greatly despised.

WEB: 3WEB

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

ASV: 3ASV

The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, O 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?

WEB: 4WEB

Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says the LORD.

ASV: 4ASV

Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though thy nest be set among the stars, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah.

WEB: 5WEB

“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?

ASV: 5ASV

If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night (how art thou cut off!), would they not steal only till they had enough? if grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?

WEB: 6WEB

How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

ASV: 6ASV

How are the things of Esau searched! how are his hidden treasures sought out!

WEB: 7WEB

All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”

ASV: 7ASV

All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee on thy way, even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread lay a snare under thee: there is no understanding in him.

WEB: 8WEB

“Won’t I in that day”, says the LORD, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?

ASV: 8ASV

Shall I not in that day, saith Jehovah, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

WEB: 9WEB

Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

ASV: 9ASV

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.

WEB: 10WEB

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

ASV: 10ASV

For the violence done to thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

WEB: 11WEB

In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.

ASV: 11ASV

In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, 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.

WEB: 12WEB

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

ASV: 12ASV

But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the day of distress.

WEB: 13WEB

Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

ASV: 13ASV

Enter not into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, look not thou on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither lay ye hands on their substance in the day of their calamity.

WEB: 14WEB

Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

ASV: 14ASV

And stand thou not in the crossway, to cut off those of his that escape; and deliver not up those of his that remain in the day of distress.

WEB: 15WEB

For the day of the LORD is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

ASV: 15ASV

For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.

WEB: 16WEB

For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

ASV: 16ASV

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.

WEB: 17WEB

But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

ASV: 17ASV

But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

WEB: 18WEB

The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

ASV: 18ASV

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 burn among them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau; for Jehovah hath spoken it.

WEB: 19WEB

Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.

ASV: 19ASV

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.

WEB: 20WEB

The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.

ASV: 20ASV

And the captives of this host of the children of Israel, that are among the Canaanites, shall possess even unto Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, that are in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South.

WEB: 21WEB

Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be the LORD’s.

ASV: 21ASV

And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be Jehovah’s.