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Obadiah 1:1-21 (KJV)  
    The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom; We have heard a
rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us
rise up against her in battle. [2] Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou
art greatly despised. 
    [3] The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of
the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to
the ground? [4] Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest
among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord. [5] If thieves came to
thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they
had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes? [6] How
are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up! [7] All the men
of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with
thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a
wound under thee: there is none understanding in him. [8] Shall I not in that day, saith
the Lord, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of
Esau? [9] And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of
the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. 
    [10] For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou
shalt be cut off for ever. [11] In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the
day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his
gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. [12] But thou
shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger;
neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their
destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. [13] Thou
shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea,
thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have
laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity; [14] Neither shouldest thou
have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest
thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. [15] For the
day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto
thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head. [16] For as ye have drunk upon my holy
mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they
shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. 
    [17] But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the
house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. [18] And the house of Jacob shall be a
fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of 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 unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess
the cities of the south. [21] And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount
of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.