Obadiah 1
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The vision of Obadiah.
Thus says the Lord God a concerning Edom:
b We have heard a report from the Lord,
and a messenger has been sent among the nations:
"Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!"
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Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
you shall be utterly despised.
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c The pride of your heart has deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,
in your lofty dwelling,
d who say in your heart,
"Who will bring me down to the ground?"
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Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
though your nest is set among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,
declares the Lord.
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If e thieves came to you,
if plunderers came by night -
how you have been destroyed! -
would they not steal only enough for themselves?
If e grape gatherers came to you,
would they not leave gleanings?
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f How Esau has been pillaged,
his treasures sought out!
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All your allies have driven you to your border;
those at peace with you have deceived you;
they have prevailed against you;
g those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you -
h you have no understanding.
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i Will I not on that day, declares the Lord,
destroy the wise men out of Edom,
and understanding out of j Mount Esau?
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And your mighty men shall be dismayed, k O Teman,
so that every man from j Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
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l Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
shame shall cover you,
m and you shall be cut off forever.
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n On the day that you stood aloof,
o on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
p and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.
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q But do not gloat over the day of your brother
in the day of his misfortune;
r do not rejoice over the people of Judah
in the day of their ruin;
s do not boast
in the day of distress.
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t Do not enter the gate of my people
in the day of their calamity;
t do not gloat over his disaster
in the day of his calamity;
u do not loot his wealth
in the day of his calamity.
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v Do not stand at the crossroads
to cut off his fugitives;
do not hand over his survivors
in the day of distress.
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For w the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.
x As you have done, it shall be done to you;
your deeds shall return on your own head.
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y For as you have drunk on z my holy mountain,
so all the nations shall drink continually;
they shall drink and swallow,
and shall be as though they had never been.
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a But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,
and it shall be holy,
b and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
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c The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
and the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau d stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
e and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.
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Those of f the Negeb b shall possess g Mount Esau,
and those of the Shephelah shall possess h the land of the Philistines;
they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of i Samaria,
and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
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The exiles of this host of the people of Israel
shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as j Zarephath,
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
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k Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion
to rule g Mount Esau,
and l the kingdom shall be the Lord's.
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Jeremiah 49:7 - 22
Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
Ezekiel 25:12 - 14
Thus says the Lord God : Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance on them.
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Obadiah 1:1 - 4
The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!
Jeremiah 49:14 - 16
I have heard a message from the Lord, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: "Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!
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Numbers 24:21 - 22
And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said, "Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock.
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Isaiah 14:13 - 15
You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north.
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Jeremiah 49:9
If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, would they not destroy only enough for themselves?
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Jeremiah 49:9
If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, would they not destroy only enough for themselves?
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Jeremiah 49:10
But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
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Psalms 41:9
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
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Jeremiah 49:7
Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
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Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.
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Ezekiel 35:2
Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.
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Amos 1:12
So I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.
1 Chronicles 1:45
Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
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Obadiah 1:8
Will I not on that day, declares the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
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Numbers 20:20 - 21
But he said, "You shall not pass through." And Edom came out against them with a large army and with a strong force.
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Ezekiel 35:9
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
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Psalms 137:7
Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!
Jeremiah 12:14
Thus says the Lord concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: "Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
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2 Kings 25:10 - 20
And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
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Joel 3:3
And have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.
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Psalms 22:17
I can count all my bones - they stare and gloat over me.
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Micah 4:11
Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.
Micah 7:8
Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
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1 Samuel 2:3
Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
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Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
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Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
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Ezekiel 35:10
Because you said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them' - although the Lord was there -
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Ezekiel 21:21
For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults the teraphim; he looks at the liver.
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Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
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Jeremiah 50:29
Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
Ezekiel 35:15
As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Habakkuk 2:8
Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
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Jeremiah 25:27 - 28
"Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I am sending among you.'
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Joel 3:17
So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
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Amos 9:8
Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," declares the Lord.
Joel 2:32
And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.
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Amos 9:12
That they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," declares the Lord who does this.
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Zechariah 12:6
On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 10:17
The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
Jeremiah 5:14
Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: "Because you have spoken this word, behold, I am making my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and the fire shall consume them.
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Joel 2:5
As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle.
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Ezekiel 25:14
And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord God.
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Joshua 10:40
So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel commanded.
Judges 1:9
And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland.
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Obadiah 1:17
But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
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Obadiah 1:8
Will I not on that day, declares the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
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Jeremiah 17:26
And people shall come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the Shephelah, from the hill country, and from the Negeb, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the Lord.
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Jeremiah 23:13
In the prophets of Samaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.
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1 Kings 17:9
"Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you."
Luke 4:26
And Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
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2 Kings 13:5
(Therefore the Lord gave Israel a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians, and the people of Israel lived in their homes as formerly.
Isaiah 19:20
It will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry to the Lord because of oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and deliver them.
1 Timothy 4:16
Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.
James 5:20
Let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
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Obadiah 1:19
Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
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