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\v 1 This is a message that Yahweh our God gave to me, Obadiah, about the Edom people group.
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\p Yahweh our God has told me this about the people of Edom:
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\q1 "I, Yahweh, have sent a messenger to other nations,
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\q2 telling them to prepare to go and attack Edom."
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\v 2 And Yahweh says this to the people of Edom:
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\q1 "I will soon cause you to become the weakest and most despised nation on the earth.
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\q1
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\v 3 Your capital city is high in the rocky cliffs,
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\q2 and you are very proud;
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\q1 you think that you are safe because no army can attack you,
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\q2 but you have deceived yourselves.
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\q1
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\v 4 And I tell you that even if you had wings and could fly higher than eagles fly,
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\q2 and if you could make your homes among the stars,
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\q2 I would bring you crashing down from there.
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\q1
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\v 5 When thieves break into someone's house during the night,
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\q2 they certainly steal only the things that they want.
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\q1 And people who pick grapes always leave a few grapes on the vines.
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\q2 But your country will be completely destroyed!
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\q1
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\v 6 Everything that is valuable will be taken away.
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\q2 Your enemies will find and take away even the valuable things that you have hidden.
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\q1
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\v 7 All your allies will turn against you,
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\q2 and they will force you to leave your country.
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\q1 Those with whom you have peace now will trick you and defeat you.
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\q2 Those who eat meals with you now are planning to trap you,
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\q1 and then they will say to you, 'You are not as clever as you thought you were!'
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\q1
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\v 8 I, Yahweh, declare that at the time that I destroy Edom,
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\q2 I will punish the men who live in those cliffs who thought that they were wise.
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\q1
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\v 9 The soldiers from Teman town will become terrified;
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\q2 all you people who are descendants of Esau will be wiped out."
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\q1
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\v 10 "You acted cruelly to your relatives who are descendants of Jacob, the twin brother of your ancestor Esau.
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\q2 So now you will be disgraced, and you will be destroyed forever.
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\q1
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\v 11 Foreigners entered the gates of Jerusalem
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\q2 and cast lots to share out among themselves the valuable things they found;
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\q1 but you were as bad as those foreigners,
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\q2 because you just stood there and did not help the Israelites.
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\v 12 You should not have gloated about the disaster that the Israelites were experiencing.
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\q2 You should not have been happy when their towns were ruined.
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\q1 You should not have made fun of them when they were suffering.
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\v 13 They are my people,
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\q2 so you should not have entered their city gates when they were experiencing those disasters
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\q1 and you should not have laughed at them.
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\q2 And you should not have taken away their valuable possessions.
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\v 14 You should not have stood at crossroads
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\q2 to catch those who were trying to escape.
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\q1 You should not have captured them and put them into the hands of their enemies
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\q2 when they were experiencing those disasters."
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\v 15 "There will soon be the time when I, Yahweh, will judge and punish all the nations.
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\q2 And you people of Edom will experience the same disasters that you caused others to experience.
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\q1 The same evil things that you have done to others will happen to you.
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\q1
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\v 16 It is as though you drank a cup of very bitter liquid on Zion, my sacred hill.
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\q2 But I will punish all the other nations just as severely,
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\q1 and cause them to disappear completely.
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\q1
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\v 17 But some people in Jerusalem will escape,
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\q2 and Jerusalem will become a very holy place.
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\q1 Then the descendants of Jacob will conquer and possess again the land that truly belongs to them.
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\q1
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\v 18 The descendants of Jacob and his son Joseph will be like a fire,
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\q2 and the people of Edom will be like stubble that will be completely burned in that fire.
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\q2 Not one person will remain alive.
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\q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
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\q1
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\v 19 The Israelites who live in the southern Judean wilderness are the ones who will capture Edom.
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\q2 And those who live in the western foothills will capture the region of Phoenicia and the areas of Ephraim and Samaria.
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\q1 And people of the tribe of Benjamin will conquer the region of Gilead.
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\q1
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\v 20 Those who were exiled in Babylon will return to their land
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\q2 and capture the region of Phoenicia as far north as Zarephath on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
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\q1 People of Jerusalem who were captured and taken to Sardis, the capital city of the region of Lydia, will capture the towns in the southern Judean wilderness.
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\q1
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\v 21 The army of Jerusalem will attack Edom and conquer it,
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\q2 and Yahweh will be their king.
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