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| "title": "Obadiah", |
| "language": "en", |
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| "The prophecy of Obadiah.<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">We have received tidings from </span> G<small>OD</small>,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And an envoy has been sent out among the nations:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">“Up! Let us rise up against her for battle.”</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Thus said the Sovereign </span> G<small>OD</small> concerning Edom:", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will make you least among nations,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">You shall be most despised.</span>", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Your arrogant heart has seduced you,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">You who dwell in clefts of the rock,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In your lofty abode.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">You think in your heart,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">“Who can pull me down to earth?”</span>", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Should you nest as high as the eagle,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Should your eyrie be lodged ’mong the stars,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Even from there I will pull you down</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> G<small>OD</small>.", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">If thieves were to come to you,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Marauders by night,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They would steal no more than they needed.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">If vintagers came to you,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They would surely leave some gleanings.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">How utterly you are destroyed!</span>", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">How thoroughly rifled is Esau,</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Esau </b>I.e., the Edomites, descendants of Jacob’s twin brother; cf. Gen. 36.1.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">How ransacked his hoards!</span>", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">All your allies turned you back</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">At the frontier;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Your own confederates</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Have duped and overcome you;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">[Those who ate] your bread</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Have planted snares under you.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">He is bereft of understanding.</span>", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In that day</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> G<small>OD</small> —<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will make the wise vanish from Edom,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Understanding from Esau’s mount.</span>", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Your warriors shall lose heart, O Teman,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And no one on Esau’s mount</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Shall survive the slaughter.</span>", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For the outrage to your brother Jacob,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Disgrace shall engulf you,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And you shall perish forever.</span>", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On that day when you stood aloof,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">When aliens carried off his goods,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">When foreigners entered his gates</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And cast lots for Jerusalem,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">You were as one of them.</span>", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">How could you</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>How could you </b>Lit. “Do not,” and so through v. 14.</i> gaze with glee<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On your brother that day,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On his day of calamity!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">How could you gloat</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Over the people of Judah</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On that day of ruin!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">How could you loudly jeer</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On a day of anguish!</span>", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">How could you enter the gate of My people</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On its day of disaster,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Gaze in glee with the others</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On its misfortune</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On its day of disaster,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And lay hands on its wealth</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On its day of disaster!</span>", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">How could you stand at the passes</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>passes </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To cut down its fugitives!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">How could you betray those who fled</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On that day of anguish!</span>", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">As you did, so shall it be done to you;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Your conduct shall be requited.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Yea, against all nations</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The day of </span> G<small>OD</small> is at hand.", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">That same cup that you</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>you </b>I.e., the Israelites.</i> drank on My Holy Mount<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Shall all nations drink evermore,</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>evermore </b>Emendation yields “at My hand,” cf. Isa. 51.17; Jer. 25.15; Ps. 75.9.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Drink till their speech grows thick,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And they become as though they had never been.</span>", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">But on Zion’s mount a remnant shall survive,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And it shall be holy.</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>holy </b>I.e., inviolate; cf. Jer. 2.3.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The House of Jacob shall dispossess</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Those who dispossessed them.</span>", |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The House of Jacob shall be fire,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the House of Joseph flame,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the House of Esau shall be straw;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They shall burn it and devour it,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And no survivor shall be left of the House of Esau</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—for </span> G<small>OD</small> has spoken.", |
| "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of parts of vv. 19–21 uncertain.</i> Thus they shall possess the Negeb and Mount Esau as well, the Shephelah and Philistia. They shall possess the Ephraimite country and the district of Samaria,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">h</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>district of Samaria </b>After the exile of the northern tribes, the city and district of Samaria were occupied mainly by non-Israelites.</i> and Benjamin<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">i</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Benjamin </b>Emendation yields “the land of the Ammonites.”</i> along with Gilead. ", |
| "And that exiled force of Israelites [shall possess] what belongs to the Phoenicians as far as Zarephath,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">j</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Zarephath </b>A town in southern Phoenicia; see 1 Kings 17.9.</i> while the Jerusalemite exile community of Sepharad<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">k</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Sepharad </b>Probably Asia Minor, called Saparda in Persian cuneiform inscriptions.</i> shall possess the towns of the Negeb. ", |
| "For liberators shall march up<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">l</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>liberators shall march up </b>Several ancient versions read “they [the exiles from Jerusalem named in the preceding verse] shall march up victorious.”</i> on Mount Zion to wreak judgment on Mount Esau; and dominion shall be G<small>OD</small>’s." |
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| "heTitle": "עובדיה", |
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| "Prophets" |
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