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reformatting by ,martin ,ward4          
,book #ca ,obadiah  #jja3jja ,the vision
 of ,obadiah4  ,this is what the ,lord  
,yahweh says about ,edom4          ,we  
have heard news from ,yahweh1 and an    
ambassador is sent          among the   
nations1 saying1 ,arise1 and let's rise 
up against          her in battle4      
#jja3jjb ,behold1 ,i have made you small
 among the nations4          ,you are   
greatly despised4  #jja3jjc ,the pride  
of your heart has deceived you1 you who 
dwell          in the clefts of the     
rock1 whose habitation is high1 who says
          in his heart1 ',who will bring
 me down to the ground8'  #jja3jjd      
,though you mount on high as the eagle1 
and though your nest is set             
among the stars1 ,i will bring you down 
from there1 says ,yahweh4  #jja3jje ,if 
thieves came to you1 if robbers by      
night--oh1 what disaster          awaits
 you--wouldn't they only steal until    
they had enough8          ,if grape     

pickers came to you1 wouldn't they leave
          some gleaning grapes8         
#jja3jjf ,how ,esau will be ransacked6  
,how his hidden treasures          are  
sought out6  #jja3jjg ,all the men of   
your alliance have brought you on your  
way1          even to the border4  ,the 
men who were at peace with          you 
have deceived you1 and prevailed against
 you4          ,friends who eat your    
bread lay a snare under you4            
,there is no understanding in him4      
#jja3jjh ,won't ,i in that day1 says    
,yahweh1 destroy the wise men           
out of ,edom1 and understanding out of  
the mountain of ,esau8  #jja3jji ,your  
mighty men1 ,teman1 will be dismayed1 to
 the end that everyone          may be  
cut off from the mountain of ,esau by   
slaughter4  #jja3jaj ,for the violence  
done to your brother ,jacob1 shame will 
cover you1          and you will be cut 
off forever4  #jja3jaa ,in the day that 
you stood on the other side1 in the day 
that strangers carried away his         

substance1 and foreigners               
entered into his gates1 and cast lots   
for ,jerusalem1          even you were  
like one of them4  #jja3jab ,but don't  
look down on your brother in the day of 
his disaster1          and don't rejoice
 over the children of ,judah in the day 
of          their destruction4  ,don't  
speak proudly in the day of distress4   
#jja3jac ,don't enter into the gate of  
my people in the day of their calamity4 
,don't look down on their affliction in 
the day of their calamity1              
neither seize their wealth on the day of
 their calamity4  #jja3jad ,don't stand 
in the crossroads to cut off those of   
his who escape4          ,don't deliver 
up those of his who remain in the day of
 distress4  #jja3jae ,for the day of    
,yahweh is near all the nations6  ,as   
you have done1          it will be done 
to you4  ,your deeds will return upon   
your own head4  #jja3jaf ,for as you    
have drunk on my holy mountain1 so will 
all the nations          drink          

continually4  ,yes1 they will drink1    
swallow down1          and will be as   
though they had not been4  #jja3jag ,but
 in ,mount ,zion1 there will be those   
who escape1 and it will          be     
holy4  ,the house of ,jacob will possess
 their possessions4  #jja3jah ,the house
 of ,jacob will be a fire1 the house of 
,joseph a flame1          and the house 
of ,esau for stubble4  ,they will burn  
among them1          and devour them4   
,there will not be any remaining to the 
house          of ,esau4  ,indeed1      
,yahweh has spoken4  #jja3jai ,those of 
the ,south will possess the mountain of 
,esau1          and those of the        
lowland1 the ,philistines4  ,they will  
possess the field of ,ephraim1 and the  
field of ,samaria4          ,benjamin   
will possess ,gilead4  #jja3jbj ,the    
captives of this army of the children of
 ,israel1          who are among the    
,canaanites1 will possess even to       
,zarephath2          and the captives of
 ,jerusalem1 who are in ,sepharad1      

will possess the cities of the ,negev4  
#jja3jba ,saviors will go up on ,mount  
,zion to judge the mountains of ,esau1  
and the kingdom will be ,yahweh's4