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1 Thus said Lord YHWH to Edom || (We have heard a report from YHWH, || And an ambassador among nations was sent, || “Rise, indeed, let us rise against her for battle”): 2 “Behold, I have made you little among nations, || You [are] despised exceedingly. 3 The pride of your heart has lifted you up, || O dweller in clefts of a rock || (A high place [is] his habitation, || He is saying in his heart: Who brings me down [to] earth?) 4 If you go up high as an eagle, || And if you set your nest between stars, || From there I bring you down,” || A declaration of YHWH. 5 “If thieves have come in to you, || If spoilers of the night, || How have you been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to you, || Do they not leave gleanings? 6 How has Esau been searched out! His hidden things have flowed out, 7 All your allies have sent you to the border, || Forgotten you, prevailed over you, have your friends, || They make your bread a snare under you, || There is no understanding in him! 8 Is it not in that day,” a declaration of YHWH, || “That I have destroyed the wise out of Edom, || And understanding out of the mountain of Esau? 9 And your mighty ones have been broken down, O Teman, || So that everyone of the mountain of Esau is cut off. 10 For slaughter, for violence [to] your brother Jacob, || Shame covers you, || And you have been cut off for all time. 11 In the day of your standing aloof from the opposite [side], || In the day of strangers taking his force captive, || And foreigners have entered his gates, || And have cast a lot for Jerusalem, || Even you [are] as one of them! 12 And—you do not look on the day of your brother, || On the day of his alienation, || Nor do you rejoice over sons of Judah, || In the day of their destruction, || Nor make your mouth great in a day of distress. 13 Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, || Nor look, even you, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, || Nor send forth against its force in a day of its calamity, Obadiah 1:1-13, Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press.
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