8. I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. 9. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. 11. The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. 235
1. The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith 9. And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be the Lord God concerning Edom;dismayed, We to the end that every one of the have heard a rumour from the Lord, mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. and an ambassador is sent among10. theFor thy violence against thy brother Jacob heathen, Arise ye, and let us riseshame up shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off against her in battle. for ever. 2. Behold, I have made thee small 11. In the day that thou stoodest on the other among the heathen: thou art greatly side, in the day that the strangers carried away despised. captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his 3. The pride of thine heart hathgates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou deceived thee, thou that dwellestwast in the as one of them. clefts of the rock, whose habitation 13.is Thou shouldest not have entered into the high; that saith in his heart, Whogate shall of my people in the day of their calamity; bring me down to the ground? yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their 4. Though thou exalt thyself as the affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have eagle, and though thou set thy nest laid hands on their substance in the day of their among the stars, thence will I bring calamity; thee down, saith the Lord.5. If thieves 14. Neither shouldest thou have stood in the came to thee, if robbers by night,crossway, (how to cut off those of his that did escape; art thou cut off!) would they not neither have shouldest thou have delivered up those of stolen till they had enough? if thehis that did remain in the day of distress. grapegatherers came to thee, would 15. For the day of the Lord is near upon all the they not leave some grapes?6. How heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto are the things of Esau searched out! thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own how are his hidden things soughthead. up 7. All the men of thy confederacy have 16. For as ye have drunk upon my holy brought thee even to the border:mountain, the so shall all the heathen drink men that were at peace with theecontinually, have yea, they shall drink, and they shall deceived thee, and prevailed against swallow down, and they shall be as though they thee; they that eat thy bread havehad laidnot a been. wound under thee: there is none 17. But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, understanding in him.8. Shall I and not in there shall be holiness; and the house of that day, saith the Lord, even destroy Jacob shall possess their possessions. the wise men out of Edom, and 18. And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and understanding out of the mount the of house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau? Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it. 19. And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. 20. And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even