Obadiah 1

1 vision Obadiah thus to say Lord YHWH/God to/for Edom tidings to hear: hear from with LORD and envoy in/on/with nation to send: depart to arise: attack and to arise: attack upon her to/for battle

The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God against Edom, We haue heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassadour is sent among the heathen: arise, and let vs rise vp against her to battel.

2 behold small to give: make you in/on/with nation to despise you(m. s.) much

Beholde, I haue made thee small among the heathen: thou art vtterly despised.

3 arrogance heart your to deceive you to dwell in/on/with cleft crag height seat his to say in/on/with heart his who? to go down me land: soil

The pride of thine heart hath deceiued thee: thou that dwellest in the cleftes of the rockes, whose habitation is hie, that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me downe to the ground?

4 if to exult like/as eagle and if between: among star to set: make nest your from there to go down you utterance LORD

Though thou exalt thy selfe as the eagle, and make thy nest among the starres, thence will I bring thee downe, sayth the Lord.

5 if thief to come (in): come to/for you if to ruin night how? to cease not to steal sufficiency their if to gather/restrain/fortify to come (in): come to/for you not to remain gleaning

Came theeues to thee or robbers by night? howe wast thou brought to silence? woulde they not haue stolen, til they had ynough? if the grape gatherers came to thee, woulde they not leaue some grapes?

6 how? to search Esau to enquire treasure his

Howe are the things of Esau sought vp, and his treasures searched?

7 till [the] border: boundary to send: depart you all human covenant your to deceive you be able to/for you human peace your food: bread your to set: make net underneath: under you nothing understanding in/on/with him

All the men of thy confederacie haue driuen thee to ye borders: the men that were at peace with thee, haue deceiued thee, and preuailed against thee: they that eate thy bread, haue laid a wound vnder thee: there is none vnderstanding in him.

8 not in/on/with day [the] he/she/it (utterance *L(abh)*) LORD and to perish wise from Edom and understanding from mountain: mount (Mount) Esau

Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, euen destroy the wise men out of Edom, and vnderstanding from the mount of Esau?

9 and to to be dismayed mighty man your Teman because to cut: eliminate man: anyone from mountain: mount (Mount) Esau from slaughter

And thy strong men, O Teman, shall bee afraide, because euery one of the mount of Esau shalbe cut off by slaughter.

10 from violence brother: male-sibling your Jacob to cover you shame and to cut: eliminate to/for forever: enduring

For thy crueltie against thy brother Iaakob, shame shall couer thee, and thou shalt be cut off for euer.

11 in/on/with day to stand: stand you from before in/on/with day to take captive be a stranger strength: rich his and foreign to come (in): come (gate his *Q(K)*) and upon Jerusalem to cast a lot allotted also you(m. s.) like/as one from them

When thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers caried away his substance, and straungers entred into his gates, and cast lots vpon Ierusalem, euen thou wast as one of them.

12 and not to see: see in/on/with day brother: male-sibling your in/on/with day misfortune his and not to rejoice to/for son: descendant/people Judah in/on/with day to perish they and not to magnify lip your in/on/with day distress

But thou shouldest not haue beholden the day of thy brother, in the day that hee was made a stranger, neither shouldest thou haue reioyced ouer the children of Iudah, in the day of their destruction: thou shouldest not haue spoken proudly in the day of affliction.

13 not to come (in): come in/on/with gate people my in/on/with day calamity their not to see: see also you(m. s.) in/on/with distress: harm his in/on/with day calamity his and not to send: depart in/on/with strength: rich his in/on/with day calamity his

Thou shouldest not haue entred into the gate of my people, in the day of their destruction, neither shouldest thou haue once looked on their affliction in the day of their destruction, nor haue layde hands on their substance in the day of their destruction.

14 and not to stand: stand upon [the] plunder to/for to cut: eliminate [obj] survivor his and not to shut survivor his in/on/with day distress

Neyther shouldest thou haue stande in the crosse wayes to cut off them, that shoulde escape, neither shouldest thou haue shut vp the remnant thereof in the day of affliction.

15 for near day LORD upon all [the] nation like/as as which to make: do to make: do to/for you recompense your to return: return in/on/with head your

For the day of the Lord is neere, vpon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall bee done to thee: thy reward shall returne vpon thine head.

16 for like/as as which to drink upon mountain: mount holiness my to drink all [the] nation continually and to drink and to swallow and to be like/as not to be

For as yee haue drunke vpon mine holy Mountaine, so shall all the heathen drinke continually: yea, they shall drinke and swallow vp, and they shalbe as though they had not bene.

17 and in/on/with mountain: mount Zion to be survivor and to be holiness and to possess: take house: household Jacob [obj] possession their

But vpon mount Zion shalbe deliuerance, and it shalbe holy, and the house of Iaakob shall possesse their possessions,

18 and to be house: household Jacob fire and house: household Joseph flame and house: household Esau to/for stubble and to burn/pursue in/on/with them and to eat them and not to be survivor to/for house: household Esau for LORD to speak: speak

And the house of Iaakob shalbe a fire, and the house of Ioseph a flame, and the house of Esau as stubble, and they shall kindle in them and deuoure them: and there shall bee no remnant of the house of Esau for the Lord hath spoken it.

19 and to possess: take [the] Negeb [obj] mountain: mount (Mount) Esau and [the] Shephelah [obj] Philistine and to possess: take [obj] land: country Ephraim and [obj] land: country Samaria and Benjamin [obj] [the] Gilead

And they shall possesse the South side of the mount of Esau, and the plaine of the Philistims: and they shall possesse the fieldes of Ephraim, and the fieldes of Samaria, and Beniamin shall haue Gilead.

20 and captivity [the] rampart [the] this to/for son: descendant/people Israel which Canaanite till Zarephath and captivity Jerusalem which in/on/with Sepharad to possess: take [obj] city [the] Negeb

And the captiuitie of this host of the children of Israel, which were among the Canaanites, shall possesse vnto Zarephath, and the captiuitie of Ierusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possesse the cities of the South.

21 and to ascend: rise to save in/on/with mountain: mount Zion to/for to judge [obj] mountain: mount (Mount) Esau and to be to/for LORD [the] kingship

And they that shall saue, shall come vp to mount Zion to iudge the mount of Esau, and the kingdome shalbe the Lords.