Obadiah 1
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Obadiah 1:2-14

2“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.3The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks1 whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’4Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.5“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night— oh, how you will be ruined— would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?6But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!7All the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace with you will deceive and overpower you. Those who eat your bread2 will set a trap for you without your awareness of it.8In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?9Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.

10Because of the violence against your brother Jacob,you will be covered with shameand cut off forever.11On the day you stood aloofwhile strangers carried off his wealthand foreigners entered his gateand cast lots for Jerusalem,you were just like one of them.12But you should not gloat in that day,your brother’s day of misfortune,nor rejoice over the people of Judahin the day of their destruction,nor boast proudly3in the day of their distress.13You should not enter the gate of My peoplein the day of their disaster,nor gloat over their afflictionin the day of their disaster,nor loot their wealthin the day of their disaster.14Nor should you stand at the crossroadsto cut off their fugitives,nor deliver up their survivorsin the day of their distress.
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  1. 1. Obadiah 1:3 Or in the retreats of Sela ↩
  2. 2. Obadiah 1:7 Hebrew does not include Those who eat. ↩
  3. 3. Obadiah 1:12 Hebrew nor enlarge your mouth ↩

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