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{\MTB This book contains the account of God telling Obadiah that Edom would be destroyed because of the evil they did to Israel. We call this book

\par }{\MT Obadiah



\par }\OneChap {\SH Yahweh will punish the Edomites
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{\PP \VerseOne{1}This is a message that Yahweh our God gave to me, Obadiah, about the Edom
{\ADD{people-group}}.

\par }{\PP Yahweh our God has told me this about
{\ADD{the people of}} Edom:

\par }{\Q “I, Yahweh, have sent a messenger to other nations,

\par }{\QB telling them to prepare to go and attack Edom.”


\par }{\BB \par }
{\PP \VS{2}And Yahweh says this to the people of Edom:

\par }{\Q “I will soon cause you to become the weakest and most despised nation
{\ADD{on the earth}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Your
{\ADD{capital city}} is high in the rocky cliffs,

\par }{\QB and you are very proud;

\par }{\Q you think that you are safe from being attacked by your enemies [RHQ],

\par }{\QB but you [IDM] have deceived yourselves.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}And I tell you that even if
{\ADD{you had wings and}} could fly higher than eagles fly,

\par }{\QB and if you could make your homes among the stars,

\par }{\QB I would bring you
{\ADD{crashing}} down from there.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}When thieves break into someone’s house during the night,

\par }{\QB they certainly [RHQ] steal only the things that they want.

\par }{\Q And people who pick grapes always [RHQ] leave a few grapes on the vines.

\par }{\QB But your country will be completely destroyed!


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Everything that is valuable will be taken away.

\par }{\QB {\ADD{Your enemies}} will find and take away even the valuable things that you have hidden.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}All ◄your allies/nations who promised to help you► will turn against you,

\par }{\QB and they will force you to leave your country/land.

\par }{\Q Those with whom you have peace now will trick/deceive you and defeat you.

\par }{\QB Those who eat meals with you now are planning to trap you,

\par }{\Q and
{\ADD{then they will say to you}}, ‘You are not [RHQ] as clever
{\ADD{as you thought you were}}!’


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{8}I, Yahweh, declare that at the time that I destroy Edom,

\par }{\QB I will punish the men who live in those cliffs who
{\ADD{thought that they}} were wise.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}The soldiers from Teman
{\ADD{town}} will become terrified;

\par }{\QB all you people who are descendants of Esau will be ◄wiped out/killed►.


\par }{\SH The reasons for Edom’s punishment
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{\Q \VS{10}You acted cruel in a cruel way toward your relatives who are descendants of Jacob,
{\ADD{the twin brother of your ancestor Esau}}.

\par }{\QB So now you will be disgraced forever; you will be completely destroyed.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Foreigners entered the gates of Jerusalem

\par }{\QB and ◄cast lots/threw small stones that were marked► to decide what valuable things they would take away;

\par }{\Q but you were as bad as those foreigners,

\par }{\QB because you just stood there
{\ADD{and did not help the Israelis}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}You should not have ◄gloated/been happy► about the disaster that the Israelis were experiencing.

\par }{\QB You should not have been happy when their towns were ruined.

\par }{\Q You should not have made fun
{\ADD{of them
}} when they were suffering.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}They are my people,

\par }{\QB so you should not have entered their
{\ADD{city}} gates when they were experiencing those disasters

\par }{\Q and you should not have laughed at them.

\par }{\QB And you should not have taken away their
{\ADD{valuable}} possessions.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}You should not have stood at crossroads

\par }{\QB to catch those who were
{\ADD{trying to}} escape.

\par }{\Q You should not have
{\ADD{captured them and}} put them into the hands of
{\ADD{their enemies}}

\par }{\QB when they were experiencing those disasters.”


\par }{\SH God will punish all the nearby nations
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{\Q \VS{15}“There will soon be the time when I, Yahweh, will judge
{\ADD{and punish}} all the nations.

\par }{\QB And you
{\ADD{people of Edom}} will experience the same
{\ADD{disasters}} that you caused
{\ADD{others to experience}}.

\par }{\Q The same evil things that you have done to others will happen to you.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}{\ADD{My people in Jerusalem have been punished}}

\par }{\QB because I was very angry with them.

\par }{\QB {\ADD{It is as though}} [MET] they drank
{\ADD{a cup of very bitter liquid
}} on Zion, my sacred hill.

\par }{\Q But
{\ADD{I}} will punish [MET] all the other nations even more severely,

\par }{\QB and cause them to disappear completely.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}But some
{\ADD{people in Jerusalem will escape}},

\par }{\QB and Jerusalem will become a very holy/sacred place.

\par }{\Q Then the descendants of Jacob will
{\ADD{conquer and}} possess again the land that truly belongs to them.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}The descendants [MTY] of Jacob and his son Joseph will be like [MET] a fire,

\par }{\QB and the people [MTY] of Edom will be like [MET] stubble that will be completely burned in that fire.

\par }{\QB Not one person will remain alive.

\par }{\Q {\ADD{That will surely happen because}} I, Yahweh, have said it.”


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{19}The Israeli people
{\ADD{who live}} in the southern desert are the ones who will capture Edom.

\par }{\QB And those
{\ADD{who live in}} the western foothills will capture the Phoenicia
{\ADD{region}} and the areas of Ephraim and Samaria.

\par }{\Q And people of the tribe of Benjamin will conquer the Gilead
{\ADD{region}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}Those who were ◄exiled in/forced to go to►
{\ADD{Babylon}} will
{\ADD{return to their land}}

\par }{\QB {\ADD{and}} capture the Phoenicia
{\ADD{region}} as far north as Zarephath
{\ADD{on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea}}.

\par }{\Q People of Jerusalem who were captured and taken to Sardis,
{\ADD{the capital city of the Lydia region}}, will capture the towns in the southern desert.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}The army of Jerusalem will attack Edom and conquer it,

\par }{\QB and Yahweh will be their king.


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