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Obadiah 1:8-21 (AMP)

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⁸ Will not I in that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom and understanding out of Mount Esau ? ⁹ And your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that everyone from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter. ¹⁰ For the violence you did against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. ¹¹ On the day that you stood aloof --on the day that strangers took captive his forces and carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem--you were even as one of them. ¹² But you should not have gloated over your brother's day, the day when his misfortune came and he was made a stranger; you should not have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have spoken arrogantly in the day of their distress. ¹³ You should not have entered the gate of My people in the day of their calamity and ruin; yes, you should not have looked on their misery in the day of their calamity and ruin, and not have reached after their army and their possessions in the day of their calamity and ruin. ¹⁴ And you should not have stood at the crossway to cut off those of Judah who escaped, neither should you have delivered up those who remained in the day of distress. ¹⁵ For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your dealings will return upon your own head. ¹⁶ For as you have drunk upon the mountain of My holiness , so shall all the nations drink continually ; yes, they shall drink, talk foolishly, and swallow down and they shall be as though they had not been. ¹⁷ But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance , and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess its possessions. ¹⁸ The house of Jacob shall be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame, but the house of Esau shall be stubble; they shall kindle and burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken it. ¹⁹ They of the South (the Negeb) shall possess Mount Esau, and they of the lowland the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead . ²⁰ And the exiles of this host of the children of Israel who are among the Canaanites shall possess as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the South (the Negeb). ²¹ And deliverers shall go up on Mount Zion to rule and judge Mount Esau, and the kingdom and the kingship shall be the Lord's.

Definition(s):
Benjamin (Ben-jam-inn): son of the right hand
Edom (Ee-dom): red, earthy; of blood
Ephraim (Eff-ra-im): fruitful; increasing
Esau (Ee-saw): he that acts or finishes
Gilead (Gil-ee-ad): the heap or mass of testimony
Israel (Iz-rehl): who prevails with God
Israel (Is-ra-el): who prevails with God
Jacob (Jeh-kobb): that supplants, undermines; the heel
Jerusalem (Je-roo-sa-lem): vision of peace
Joseph (Joh-sef): increase; addition
Judah (Joo-da): the praise of the Lord; confession
Sepharad (Se-fah-rad): a book descending
Zion (Zy-on): monument; raised up; sepulcher
Canaanites (Kehn-an-ights):
On (Onn):