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    Obadiah

    Obadiah 1

    1 Obadiah’s a1 The Heb. name Obadiah means Servant of the LORD vision: This is what the Lord GOD has to say about Edom. We have heard a report from the LORD, and a messenger has been dispatched among the nations to say b1 The Heb. lacks to say “Get up! Let us rise up against her to fight!”ISV — Obadiah 1:1

    2 “Look! I will make you insignificant among the nations; you will be utterly despised.ISV — Obadiah 1:2

    3 The arrogance in your heart has deceived you, who inhabit hidden places on rocky cliffs, whose dwelling is in the heights, who say continuously to yourself, c3 Lit. continually in your heart ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’ISV — Obadiah 1:3

    4 Though you soar high like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, I will bring you down even from there,” declares the LORD. d4 Cf. Jer 49:14-16ISV — Obadiah 1:4

    5 “If thieves came against you, if marauding gangs by night —Oh, how you will be destroyed!— Would they not steal only until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave some e5 The Heb. lacks some grapes to be gleaned?ISV — Obadiah 1:5

    6 “Oh, how Esau is ransacked, how his hidden treasures are thoroughly f6 The Heb. lacks thoroughly searched out!ISV — Obadiah 1:6

    7 All your allies will force you out of the land, g7 Lit. out to the border your associates will deceive you and prevail against you. Your friends h7 Lit. Your bread; i.e. those who eat your bread will lay out a trap for you, and you will i7 The Heb. lacks you will never understand it!ISV — Obadiah 1:7

    8 “In that day,” declares the LORD, “will I not destroy the wise from Edom, and those with understanding from Esau’s Mountain?ISV — Obadiah 1:8

    9 Teman, our mighty soldiers will be dismayed, so that every man from Esau’s Mountain will be slaughtered.” j 9 Lit. will be cut off by slaughterISV — Obadiah 1:9

    10 “Shame will overwhelm you because of the violence you inflicted on your brother Jacob, and you will be excluded k10 Lit. cut off forever.ISV — Obadiah 1:10

    11 “On the day you just stood by, l11 Or stood in opposition when m11 Lit. in the day strangers carried away Jacob’s n11 Lit. his wealth and foreigners entered his gates, casting lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.ISV — Obadiah 1:11

    12 “You should not have gloated over your brother, o12 Lit. in the day of your brother on the day of his calamity. You should not have rejoiced when p12 Lit. in the day the descendants of Judah were perishing. You should not have boasted q12 Lit. have let your mouth boast when r12 Lit. in the day they were in distress.ISV — Obadiah 1:12

    13 “You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their disaster. s13 The Heb. words their disaster may be a word play on the Heb. word Edom Also, you should not have gloated over Judah’s t13 Lit. his misfortune on the day of his disaster, u13 The Heb. words his disaster may be a word play on the Heb. word Edom nor should you have plundered his wealth on the day of his disaster. v13 The Heb. words his disaster may be a word play on the Heb. word EdomISV — Obadiah 1:13

    14 And you should not have taken your stand at the crossroads to cut down his fleeing refugees, nor should you have handed over his survivors on the day of his distress.”ISV — Obadiah 1:14

    15 “Indeed, the Day of the LORD approaches all nations. As you have done it will be done to you— your deeds will return to haunt you! w15 Lit. return on your own headISV — Obadiah 1:15

    16 Just as you have drunk from the cup of my wrath x16 The Heb. lacks from the cup of my wrath upon my holy mountain, so will all nations drink from the cup of my wrath y16 The Heb. lacks from the cup of my wrath perpetually. They will drink, they will gulp it down, and they will be as if they had never existed!ISV — Obadiah 1:16

    17 “But there will be a delivered remnant on Mount Zion. There will be holiness, and the house of Jacob will take back their possessions.ISV — Obadiah 1:17

    18 “The house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, but the house of Esau will be kindling. Then Jacob and Joseph z18 Lit. They will burn and consume Esau, aa18 Lit. them and no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken it.ISV — Obadiah 1:18

    19 “Those in the Negev bb19 i.e. the southern regions of the Sinai peninsula; cf. Josh 10:40 will possess Esau’s Mountain, and those in the Shephelah cc19 i.e. the verdant central lowlands of Israel; cf. Josh 10:40 the Philistines. They will possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria, while Benjamin will possess the territory of dd19 The Heb. lacks will possess the territory of Gilead.ISV — Obadiah 1:19

    20 The exiles, the Israeli host, will possess the territory of the ee20 The Heb. lacks the territory of Canaanites all the way to Zarephath. The exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad ff20 i.e. perhaps Sardis, capital of Lydia, Saparda in eastern Assyria, Sparta in Greece, or a location in Spain (so Targ of Jonathan) will possess the cities of the Negev. gg20 i.e. the southern regions of the Sinai peninsula; cf. Josh 10:40ISV — Obadiah 1:20

    21 Deliverers will assemble on Mount Zion to judge Esau’s Mountain, and to the LORD will the kingdom belong!”ISV — Obadiah 1:21

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