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Obadiah 1

Israel's Restoration

11“In that day I will restore
David's fallen tent.
I will repair its broken places,
restore its ruins,
and build it as it used to be,

12so that they may possess the remnant of Edom
and all the nations that bear my name,Hebrew; Septuagint so that the remnant of men / and all the nations that bear my name may seek the Lord ”
declares the LORD, who will do these things.

13“The days are coming,” declares the LORD,
“when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman
and the planter by the one treading grapes.
New wine will drip from the mountains
and flow from all the hills.

14I will bring back my exiledOr will restore the fortunes of my people Israel;
they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.
They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;
they will make gardens and eat their fruit.

15I will plant Israel in their own land,
never again to be uprooted
from the land I have given them,”
says the LORD your God.

Obadiah

Chapter 1

1The vision of Obadiah.
This is what the Sovereign LORD says about Edom—
We have heard a message from the LORD:
An envoy was sent to the nations to say,
“Rise, and let us go against her for battle”—

2“See, I will make you small among the nations;
you will be utterly despised.

3The pride of your heart has deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rocksOr of Sela
and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

4Though you soar like the eagle
and make your nest among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,”
declares the LORD.

5“If thieves came to you,
if robbers in the night—
Oh, what a disaster awaits you—
would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
would they not leave a few grapes?

6But how Esau will be ransacked,
his hidden treasures pillaged!

7All your allies will force you to the border;
your friends will deceive and overpower you;
those who eat your bread will set a trap for you,The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
but you will not detect it.

8“In that day,” declares the LORD,
“will I not destroy the wise men of Edom,
men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?

9Your warriors, O Teman, will be terrified,
and everyone in Esau's mountains
will be cut down in the slaughter.

10Because of the violence against your brother Jacob,
you will be covered with shame;
you will be destroyed forever.

11On the day you stood aloof
while strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.

12You should not look down on your brother
in the day of his misfortune,
nor rejoice over the people of Judah
in the day of their destruction,
nor boast so much
in the day of their trouble.

13You should not march through the gates of my people
in the day of their disaster,
nor look down on them in their calamity
in the day of their disaster,
nor seize their wealth
in the day of their disaster.

14You should not wait at the crossroads
to cut down their fugitives,
nor hand over their survivors
in the day of their trouble.

15“The day of the LORD is near
for all nations.
As you have done, it will be done to you;
your deeds will return upon your own head.

16Just as you drank on my holy hill,
so all the nations will drink continually;
they will drink and drink
and be as if they had never been.

17But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;
it will be holy,
and the house of Jacob
will possess its inheritance.

18The house of Jacob will be a fire
and the house of Joseph a flame;
the house of Esau will be stubble,
and they will set it on fire and consume it.
There will be no survivors
from the house of Esau.”
The LORD has spoken.

19People from the Negev will occupy
the mountains of Esau,
and people from the foothills will possess
the land of the Philistines.
They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,
and Benjamin will possess Gilead.

20This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan
will possess the land as far as Zarephath;
the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the towns of the Negev.

21Deliverers will go up onOr from Mount Zion
to govern the mountains of Esau.
And the kingdom will be the LORD's.