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OBADIAH 1

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1:1 The vision of Obadiah.Edom Will Be Humbled

Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom:

We have heard a report from the Lord,

and a messenger has been sent among the nations:

“Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!” 2

Behold, I will make you small among the nations;

you shall be utterly despised. 3

The pride of your heart has deceived you,

you who live in the clefts of the rock,

in your lofty dwelling,

who say in your heart,

“Who will bring me down to the ground?” 4

Though you soar aloft like the eagle,

though your nest is set among the stars,

from there I will bring you down,

declares the Lord.

If thieves came to you,

if plunderers came by night—

how you have been destroyed!—

would they not steal only enough for themselves?

If grape gatherers came to you,

would they not leave gleanings? 6

How Esau has been pillaged,

his treasures sought out! 7

All your allies have driven you to your border;

those at peace with you have deceived you;

they have prevailed against you;

those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you—

you have no understanding.
8

Will I not on that day, declares the Lord,

destroy the wise men out of Edom,

and understanding out of Mount Esau? 9

And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman,

so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter. Edom’s Violence Against Jacob

Because of the violence done to 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 carried off his wealth

and foreigners entered his gates

and cast lots for Jerusalem,

you were like one of them. 12

But do not gloat over the day of your brother

in the day of his misfortune;

do not rejoice over the people of Judah

in the day of their ruin;

do not boast

in the day of distress. 13

Do not enter the gate of my people

in the day of their calamity;

do not gloat over his disaster

in the day of his calamity;

do not loot his wealth

in the day of his calamity. 14

Do not stand at the crossroads

to cut off his fugitives;

do not hand over his survivors

in the day of distress. The Day of the Lord Is Near

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.

As you have done, it shall be done to you;

your deeds shall return on your own head. 16

For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,

so all the nations shall drink continually;

they shall drink and swallow,

and shall be as though they had never been. 17

But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,

and it shall be holy,

and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions. 18

The house of Jacob shall be a fire,

and the house of Joseph a flame,

and the house of Esau stubble;

they shall burn them and consume them,

and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,

for the Lord has spoken.

The Kingdom of the Lord

Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau,

and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines;

they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria,

and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. 20

The exiles of this host of the people of Israel

shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,

and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

shall possess the cities of the Negeb. 21

Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion

to rule Mount Esau,

and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.

PROVERBS 5

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Warning Against Adultery

5:1

My son, be attentive to my wisdom;

incline your ear to my understanding, 2

that you may keep discretion,

and your lips may guard knowledge. 3

For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey,

and her speech is smoother than oil, 4

but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,

sharp as a two-edged sword. 5

Her feet go down to death;

her steps follow the path to Sheol; 6

she does not ponder the path of life;

her ways wander, and she does not know it.
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And now, O sons, listen to me,

and do not depart from the words of my mouth. 8

Keep your way far from her,

and do not go near the door of her house, 9

lest you give your honor to others

and your years to the merciless, 10

lest strangers take their fill of your strength,

and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, 11

and at the end of your life you groan,

when your flesh and body are consumed, 12

and you say, “How I hated discipline,

and my heart despised reproof! 13

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers

or incline my ear to my instructors. 14

I am at the brink of utter ruin

in the assembled congregation.”
15

Drink water from your own cistern,

flowing water from your own well. 16

Should your springs be scattered abroad,

streams of water in the streets? 17

Let them be for yourself alone,

and not for strangers with you. 18

Let your fountain be blessed,

and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 19

a lovely deer, a graceful doe.

Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;

be intoxicated always in her love. 20

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman

and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? 21

For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord,

and he ponders all his paths. 22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him,

and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. 23

He dies for lack of discipline,

and because of his great folly he is led astray.

PSALM 143

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My Soul Thirsts for You

A Psalm of David.
143:1

Hear my prayer, O Lord;

give ear to my pleas for mercy!

In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness! 2

Enter not into judgment with your servant,

for no one living is righteous before you.
3

For the enemy has pursued my soul;

he has crushed my life to the ground;

he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead. 4

Therefore my spirit faints within me;

my heart within me is appalled.
5

I remember the days of old;

I meditate on all that you have done;

I ponder the work of your hands. 6

I stretch out my hands to you;

my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
7

Answer me quickly, O Lord!

My spirit fails!

Hide not your face from me,

lest I be like those who go down to the pit. 8

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,

for in you I trust.

Make me know the way I should go,

for to you I lift up my soul.
9

Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord!

I have fled to you for refuge. 10

Teach me to do your will,

for you are my God!

Let your good Spirit lead me

on level ground!
11

For your name’s sake, O Lord, preserve my life!

In your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble! 12

And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies,

and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul,

for I am your servant.