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## Ovadyah

### Chapter 1

1The vision of Ovadyah. This is what Adonai YHWH says about Edom. We have heard news from YHWH, and an ambassador is sent amongst the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle. 2Behold, I have made you small amongst the nations. You are greatly despised. 3The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’ 4Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set amongst the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says YHWH. 5“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes? 6How Esav will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out! 7All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.” 8“Won’t I in that day”, says YHWH, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esav? 9Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esav by slaughter. 10For the violence done to your brother Yaakov, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. 11In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them. 12But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Yehudah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress. 13Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity. 14Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress. 15For the day of YHWH is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head. 16For as you have drunk on my kodesh mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been. 17But in Har Tzion, there will be those who escape, and it will be kodesh. The house of Yaakov will possess their possessions. 18The house of Yaakov will be a fire, the house of Yosef a flame, and the house of Esav for stubble. They will burn amongst them and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esav.” Indeed, YHWH has spoken. 19Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esav, and those of the lowland, the Pelishtim. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Shomron. Binyamin will possess Gilead. 20The captives of this army of the children of Yisrael, who are amongst the Kna'anim, will possess even to Tzarfat; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev. 21Saviours will go up on Har Tzion to judge the mountains of Esav, and the kingdom will be YHWH’s.

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