Obadiah 1

1 Visioun of Abdias. The Lord God seith these thingis to Edom. We herden an heryng of the Lord, and he sente a messanger to hethene men. Rise ye, and togidere rise we ayens hym in to batel.

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

2 Lo! Y yaf thee litil in hethene men, thou art ful myche `worthi to be dispisid.

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

3 The pride of thin herte enhaunside thee, dwellynge in crasyngis of stoonys, areisynge thi seete. Whiche seist in thin herte, Who schal drawe me doun in to erthe?

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

4 Thouy thou schalt be reisid as an egle, and thouy thou schalt putte thi nest among sterris, fro thennus Y schal drawe thee doun, seith the Lord.

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

5 If niyt theuys hadden entrid to thee, if outlawis bi niyt, hou schuldist thou haue be stille? whether thei schulden not haue stole thingis ynow to hem? If gadereris of grapis hadden entrid to thee, whether thei schulden haue left nameli clustris to thee?

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

6 Hou souyten thei Esau, serchiden the hid thingis of him?

how? to search Esau to enquire treasure his

7 Til to the termes thei senten out thee; and alle men of thi couenaunt of pees scorneden thee, men of thi pees wexiden stronge ayens thee; thei that schulen ete with thee, schulen put aspies, ether tresouns, vndur thee; ther is no prudence in hym.

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

8 Whether not in that dai, seith the Lord, Y schal lese the wise men of Idumee, and prudence of the mount of Esau?

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

9 And thi stronge men schulen drede of myddai, that a man of the hil of Esau perische.

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

10 For sleyng and for wickidnesse ayens thi brother Jacob, confusioun schal hile thee, and thou schalt perische with outen ende.

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

11 In the dai whanne thou stodist ayens hym, whanne aliens token the oost of hym, and straungeris entriden the yatis of hym, and senten lot on Jerusalem, thou were also as oon of hem.

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

12 And thou schalt not dispise in the dai of thi brother, in the dai of his pilgrimage, and thou schalt not be glad on the sones of Juda, in the dai of perdicioun of hem; and thou schalt not magnefie thi mouth in the dai of angwisch,

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

13 nether schalt entre in to the yate of my puple, in the dai of fallyng of hem; and thou schalt not dispise in the yuels of hym, in the dai of his distriyng; and thou schalt not be sent out ayens his oost, in the day of his distriyng;

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

14 nether thou schalt stonde in the goynges out, that thou sle hem that fledden; and thou schalt not close togidere the residues, ether left men, of hym, in the day of tribulacioun,

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

15 for the dai of the Lord is niy on alle `hethene men. As thou hast doon, it schal be doon to thee; he schal conuerte thi yeldyng in to thin heed.

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

16 For as ye drunken on myn hooli hil, alle hethene men schulen drynke bisili, and thei schulen drynke, and schulen soupe vp; and thei schulen be as if thei ben not.

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

17 And saluacioun schal be in the hil of Sion, and it schal be hooli; and the hous of Jacob schal welde hem whiche weldiden hem.

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

18 And the hous of Jacob schal be fier, and the hous of Joseph schal be flawme, and the hous of Esau schal be stobil; and `thei schulen be kyndlid in hem, and thei schulen deuoure hem; and relifs schulen not be of the hous of Esau, for the Lord spak.

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

19 And these that ben at the south, schulen enherite the hil of Esau; and thei that ben in the lowe feeldis, schulen enherite Filistiym; and thei schulen welde the cuntrei of Effraym, and cuntrei of Samarie; and Beniamyn schal welde Galaad.

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

20 And ouerpassyng of this oost of sones of Israel schal welde alle places of Cananeis, til to Sarepta; and the transmygracioun of Jerusalem, that is in Bosphoro, schal welde citees of the south.

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

21 And sauyours schulen stie in to the hil of Sion, for to deme the hil of Esau, and a rewme schal be to the Lord.

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