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\par }\OneChap {\PP \VerseOne{1}{\SC{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.


\par }{\PP \VS{2}Arise ye, and let us rise up against her to war.

\VS{3}Behold, I have made thee small among the Gentiles: thou art greatly dishonoured. The pride of thine heart has elated thee, dwelling
{\ADD{as thou dost}} in the holes of the rocks,
{\ADD{as one that}} exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?

\VS{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.

\VS{5}If thieves came in to thee, or robbers by night, where wouldest thou have been cast away? would they not have stolen
{\ADD{just}} enough for themselves? and if grape-gatherers went in to thee, would they not leave a gleaning?


\par }{\PP \VS{6}How has Esau been searched out, and
{\ADD{how}} have his hidden things been detected?

\VS{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.


\par }{\PP \VS{8}In that day, saith the Lord, I will destroy the wise men out of Idumea, and understanding out of the mount of Esau.

\VS{9}And thy warriors from Thæman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

\VS{10}Because of the slaughter and the sin
{\ADD{committed against}} thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

\VS{11}From the day that thou stoodest in opposition
{\ADD{to him}}, 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.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}And
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:12 }{\FQA{Or,
}}{\FT{look not thou, etc.}}}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
{\ADD{their}} affliction.

\VS{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.

\VS{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.


\par }{\PP \VS{15}For the day of the Lord is near upon all the Gentiles: as thou hast done, so shall it be
{\ADD{done}} to thee: thy recompense shall be returned on thine
{\ADD{own}} head.

\VS{16}For as thou hast drunk upon my holy mountain,
{\ADD{so}} shall all the nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not.


\par }{\PP \VS{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.

\VS{18}And the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau
{\ADD{shall be}} for stubble; and
{\ADD{Israel}} shall flame forth against them, and shall devour them, and there shall not be a corn-field
{\ADD{left}} to the house of Esau; because the Lord has spoken.

\VS{19}And they
{\ADD{that dwell}} in the
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:19 }{\FT{The
}}{\FQA{Gr.
}}{\FT{is the Hebrew word.}}}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.


\par }{\PP \VS{20}And this
{\ADD{shall be}} the domain of the captivity of the children of Israel, the land of the Chananites as far as Sarepta; and the captives of Jerusalem
{\ADD{shall inherit}} as far as Ephratha; they shall inherit the cities of the south.


\par }{\PP \VS{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.


\par }