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Obadiah 1:8-21 (NASB)
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8 "Will I not on that day," declares the LORD,
"Destroy wise men from Edom
And understanding from the mountain of Esau?
9 "Then your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman,
So that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
10 "Because of violence to your brother Jacob,
You will be covered with shame,
And you will be cut off forever.
11 "On the day that you stood aloof,
On the day that strangers carried off his wealth,
And foreigners entered his gate
And cast lots for Jerusalem--
You too were as one of them.
12 "Do not gloat over your brother's day,
The day of his misfortune
And do not rejoice over the sons of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Yes, do not boast
In the day of their distress.
13 "Do not enter the gate of My people
In the day of their disaster
Yes, you, do not gloat over their calamity
In the day of their disaster
And do not loot their wealth
In the day of their disaster.
14 "Do not stand at the fork of the road
To cut down their fugitives;
And do not imprison their survivors
In the day of their distress. 15 "For the day of the LORD draws near on all the nations
As you have done, it will be done to you
Your dealings will return on your own head.
16 "Because just as you drank on My holy mountain,
All the nations will drink continually.
They will drink and swallow
And become as if they had never existed.
17 "But on Mount Zion there will be those who escape,
And it will be holy
And the house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
18 "Then the house of Jacob will be a fire
And the house of Joseph a flame;
But the house of Esau will be as stubble
And they will set them on fire and consume them,
So that there will be no survivor of the house of Esau,"
For the LORD has spoken.
19 Then those of the Negev will possess the mountain of Esau,
And those of the Shephelah the Philistine plain;
Also, possess the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria,
And Benjamin will possess Gilead.
20 And the exiles of this host of the sons of Israel,
Who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,
And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
Will possess the cities of the Negev.
21 The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion
To judge the mountain of Esau,
And the kingdom will be the LORD'S. Definition(s): Benjamin (Ben-jam-inn): son of the right hand
Ephraim (Eff-ra-im): fruitful; increasing
Esau (Ee-saw): he that acts or finishes
Jacob (Jeh-kobb): that supplants, undermines; the heel
Jerusalem (Je-roo-sa-lem): vision of peace
Joseph (Joh-sef): increase; addition
Zion (Zy-on): monument; raised up; sepulcher
Canaanites (Kehn-an-ights):