Abdias Propheta 1
1 Visio Abdiae. Haec dicit Dominus Deus ad Edom: Auditum audivimus a Domino, et legatum ad gentes misit: Surgite, et consurgamus adversus eum in praelium.
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.'
2 Ecce parvulum dedi te in Gentibus: contemptibilis tu es valde.
Lo, little I have made thee among nations, Despised [art] thou exceedingly.
3 Superbia cordis tui extulit te, habitantem in scissuris petrarum, exaltantem solium tuum: qui dicis in corde tuo: Quis detrahet me in terram?
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?')
4 Si exaltatus fueris ut aquila, et si inter sidera posueris nidum tuum: inde detraham te, dicit Dominus.
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.
5 Si fures introissent ad te, si latrones per noctem, quomodo conticuisses? nonne furati essent sufficientia sibi? si vindemiatores introissent ad te, numquid saltem racemum reliquissent tibi?
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?
6 Quomodo scrutati sunt Esau, investigaverunt abscondita eius?
How hath Esau been searched out! Flowed out have his hidden things,
7 Usque ad terminum emiserunt te: omnes viri foederis tui illuserunt tibi: invaluerunt adversum te viri pacis tuae: qui comedunt tecum, ponent insidias subter te: non est prudentia in eo.
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!
8 Numquid non in die illa, dicit Dominus, perdam sapientes de Idumaea, et prudentiam de monte Esau?
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?
9 Et timebunt fortes tui a Meridie, ut intereat vir de monte Esau.
And broken down have been thy mighty ones, O Teman, So that every one of the mount of Esau is cut off.
10 Propter interfectionem, et propter iniquitatem in fratrem tuum Iacob, operiet te confusio, et peribis in aeternum.
For slaughter, for violence [to] thy brother Jacob, Cover thee doth shame, And thou hast been cut off — to the age.
11 In die cum stares adversus eum, quando capiebant alieni exercitum eius, et extranei ingrediebantur portas eius, et super Ierusalem mittebant sortem: tu quoque eras quasi unus ex eis.
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!
12 Et non despicies in die fratris tui, in die peregrinationis eius: et non laetaberis super filios Iuda in die perditionis eorum: et non magnificabis os tuum in die angustiae.
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.
13 Neque ingredieris portam populi mei in die ruinae eorum: neque despicies et tu in malis eius in die vastitatis illius: et non emitteris adversus exercitum eius in die vastitatis illius.
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,
14 Neque stabis in exitibus ut interficias eos qui fugerint: et non concludes reliquos eius in die tribulationis.
Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, Nor deliver up its remnant in a day of distress.
15 Quoniam iuxta est dies Domini super omnes gentes: sicut fecisti, fiet tibi: retributionem tuam convertet in caput tuum.
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.
16 Quomodo enim bibisti super montem sanctum meum, bibent omnes Gentes iugiter: et bibent, et absorbebunt, et erunt quasi non sint.
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.
17 Et in monte Sion erit salvatio, et erit sanctus: et possidebit domus Iacob eos qui se possederant.
And in mount Zion there is an escape, And it hath been holy, And the house of Jacob have possessed their possessions.
18 Et erit domus Iacob ignis, et domus Ioseph flamma, et domus Esau stipula: et succendentur in eis, et devorabunt eos: et non erunt reliquiae domus Esau, quia Dominus locutus est.
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.
19 Et hereditabunt hi, qui ad Austrum sunt, montem Esau, et qui in campestribus Philisthiim: et possidebunt regionem Ephraim, et regionem Samariae: et Beniamin possidebit Galaad.
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.
20 Et transmigratio exercitus huius filiorum Israel, omnia loca Chananaeorum usque ad Sareptam: et transmigratio Ierusalem, quae in Bosphoro est, possidebit civitates Austri.
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.
21 Et ascendent salvatores in montem Sion iudicare montem Esau: et erit Domino regnum.
And gone up have saviours on mount Zion, To judge the mount of Esau, And the kingdom hath been to Jehovah!'
