\NormalFont\ShortTitle{Obadiah}

{\MT OBADIAH.



\par }\OneChap {\MM \VerseOne{1}{\SC{The}} vision of Obadiah.

\par }{\PP Thus saith the Lord
{\SC{God}} concerning Edom;

\par }{\Q We have heard a rumour from the
{\SC{Lord}},

\par }{\Q And an ambassador is sent among the heathen,

\par }{\Q Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen:

\par }{\Q Thou
{\ADD{art}} greatly despised.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee,

\par }{\Q Thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation
{\ADD{is}} high;

\par }{\Q That saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down
{\ADD{to}} the ground?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Though thou exalt
{\ADD{thyself}} as the eagle,

\par }{\Q And though
{\ADD{thou}} set thy nest among the stars,

\par }{\Q Thence will I bring thee down, saith the
{\SC{Lord}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!)

\par }{\Q Would they not have stolen till they had enough?

\par }{\Q If the grape-gatherers came to thee,

\par }{\Q Would they not leave
{\ADD{some}} grapes?


\par }{\Q \VS{6}How are
{\ADD{the things of}} Esau searched out!

\par }{\Q {\ADD{How}} are his hid things sought up!


\par }{\Q \VS{7}All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee
{\ADD{even}} to the border:

\par }{\Q The men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee,
{\ADD{and}} prevailed against thee;

\par }{\Q {\ADD{They that eat}} thy bread have laid a wound under thee:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{There is}} none understanding in him.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Shall I not in that day, saith the
{\SC{Lord}},

\par }{\Q Even destroy the wise
{\ADD{men}} out of Edom,

\par }{\Q And understanding out of the mount of Esau?


\par }{\Q \VS{9}And thy mighty
{\ADD{men}}, O Teman, shall be dismayed,

\par }{\Q To the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{10}For
{\ADD{thy}} violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee,

\par }{\Q And thou shalt be cut off for ever.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}In the day that thou stoodest on the other side,

\par }{\Q In the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces,

\par }{\Q And foreigners entered
{\ADD{into}} his gates,

\par }{\Q And cast lots upon Jerusalem,

\par }{\Q Even thou
{\ADD{wast}} as one of them.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger;

\par }{\Q Neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction;

\par }{\Q Neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity:

\par }{\Q Yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity,

\par }{\Q Nor have laid
{\ADD{hands}} on their substance in the day of their calamity;


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape;

\par }{\Q Neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}For the day of the
{\SC{Lord}}
{\ADD{is}} near upon all the heathen:

\par }{\Q As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee;

\par }{\Q Thy reward shall return upon thine own head.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{So}} shall all the heathen drink continually,

\par }{\Q Yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down,

\par }{\Q And they shall be as though they had not been.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{17}But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness;

\par }{\Q And the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}And the house of Jacob shall be a fire,

\par }{\Q And the house of Joseph a flame,

\par }{\Q And the house of Esau for stubble,

\par }{\Q And they shall kindle in them, and devour them;

\par }{\Q And there shall not be
{\ADD{any}} remaining of the house of Esau;

\par }{\Q For the
{\SC{Lord}} hath spoken
{\ADD{it}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}And
{\ADD{they of}} the south shall possess the mount of Esau;

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{they of}} the plain the Philistines:

\par }{\Q And they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria:

\par }{\Q And Benjamin
{\ADD{shall possess}} Gilead.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel
{\ADD{shall possess}} that of the Canaanites,
{\ADD{even}} unto Zarephath;

\par }{\Q And the captivity of Jerusalem, which
{\ADD{is}} in Sepharad,

\par }{\Q Shall possess the cities of the south.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau;

\par }{\Q And the kingdom shall be the
{\SC{Lord’s}}.


\par }