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Obadiah 1 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:1 - Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Edom, A report we have heard from Jehovah, And an ambassador among nations was sent, 'Rise, yea, let us rise against her for battle.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:2 - Lo, little I have made thee among nations, Despised art thou exceedingly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:3 - The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, O dweller in clifts of a rock, (A high place is his habitation, He is saying in his heart, 'Who doth bring me down to earth?')

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4 - If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:5 - If thieves have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings?

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:6 - How hath Esau been searched out! Flowed out have his hidden things,

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:7 - Unto the border sent thee have all thine allies, Forgotten thee, prevailed over thee, have thy friends, Thy bread they make a snare under thee, There is no understanding in him!

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:8 - Is it not in that day -- an affirmation of Jehovah, That I have destroyed the wise out of Edom, And understanding out of the mount of Esau?

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:9 - And broken down have been thy mighty ones, O Teman, So that every one of the mount of Esau is cut off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:10 - For slaughter, for violence to thy brother Jacob, Cover thee doth shame, And thou hast been cut off -- to the age.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:11 - In the day of thy standing over-against, In the day of strangers taking captive his force, And foreigners have entered his gates, And for Jerusalem have cast a lot, Even thou art as one of them!

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:12 - And -- thou dost not look on the day of thy brother, On the day of his alienation, Nor dost thou rejoice over sons of Judah, In the day of their destruction, Nor make great thy mouth in a day of distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:13 - Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, Nor look, even thou, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, Nor send forth against its force in a day of its calamity,

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:14 - Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, Nor deliver up its remnant in a day of distress.

The Day of the LORD and the Future

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:15 - For near is the day of Jehovah, on all the nations, As thou hast done, it is done to thee, Thy deed doth turn back on thine own head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:16 - For -- as ye have drunk on My holy mount, Drink do all the nations continually, And they have drunk and have swallowed, And they have been as they have not been.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:17 - And in mount Zion there is an escape, And it hath been holy, And the house of Jacob have possessed their possessions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:18 - And the house of Jacob hath been a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame, And the house of Esau for stubble, And they have burned among them, And they have consumed them, And there is not a remnant to the house of Esau, For Jehovah hath spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:19 - And they have possessed the south with the mount of Esau, And the low country with the Philistines, And they have possessed the field of Ephraim, And the field of Samaria, And Benjamin with Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:20 - And the removed of this force of the sons of Israel, That is with the Canaanites unto Zarephat, And the removed of Jerusalem that is with the Sepharad, Possess the cities of the south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:21 - And gone up have saviours on mount Zion, To judge the mount of Esau, And the kingdom hath been to Jehovah!'
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The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Obadiah Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras