Obadiah 1:1 Cross References - JuliaSmith

¹ The vision of Obadiah. Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Edom: We heard a report from Jehovah, a messenger was sent among the nations; arise ye, and we will rise up against her for war.

⁷ Remember, O Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; they saying, Make bare, make bare, even to the foundations in her.

² Sending messengers upon the sea, and in vessels of the bulrush upon the face of the waters, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation drawn out and sharpened, to a people to be feared from this, and farther off; a nation of might, of might, and of treading down, of which the rivers divided up its land. ³ All ye inhabiting the habitable globe, and dwelling in the earth, when lifting up a signal on the mountains, ye shall see; and when striking the trumpet, ye shall hear.

¹¹ The burden of Dumah. He called to me from Seir, Watch, what of the night? watch, what of the night?

⁴ For his chiefs were in Zoan, and his messengers will reach to Hanes.

¹ Draw near, ye nations, to hear; and ye people, attend: the earth shall hear, and its fulness; the habitable globe, and all its offspring. ² For the wrath of Jehovah is upon all nations, And anger upon all their army: he devoted them to destruction, he gave them to slaughter. ³ And their wounded shall be cast out, and their carcasses the stench shall go up, and the mountains flowed down from their blood. ⁴ And all the army of the heavens melted, and the heavens shall roll together as a book, and all their army shall fall away as the leaf falling from the vine, and as a falling from the fig tree. ⁵ For my sword was drunk in the heavens: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of destruction for judgment ⁶ The sword of Jehovah was filled with blood, it was made fat from the fat of the blood of lambs and he goats, from the fat of kidneys of rams: for a sacrifice to Jehovah in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. ⁷ And the buffaloes shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the strong ones; and their land was drunk from blood, and from fat shall their dust be made fat ⁸ For a day of vengeance to Jehovah, a year of retributions for the contention of Zion. ⁹ And its torrents turned to pitch, and its dust to sulphur, and its land to burning pitch. ¹⁰ Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall be laid waste; none passing through it forever to forever. ¹¹ And the pelican and the hedgehog shall possess it; the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and he stretched out upon it the line of desolation and the stones of emptiness. ¹² Its nobles shall be called to the kingdom, and none there, and all its chiefs shall be no more. ¹³ And thorns came up in her palaces, the nettle and the thorn bush in her fortifications, and it was a dwelling of jackals, an enclosure for the daughters of the ostrich. ¹⁴ And animals of the desert lighted upon the howlers, and the he goat shall call to his neighbor; also there the night spectre rested, and found for herself a resting place. ¹⁵ There the arrow-snake nested, and she will lay eggs and hatch, and brood in her shadow: also there the falcons were collected, the female with her companion. ¹⁶ Seek ye from the book of Jehovah, and read: One of these was not wanting; a female her companion they missed not: for my mouth it commanded, and his spirit it collected them. ¹⁷ And be cast the lot for them, and his hand divided it to them by line; they shall possess it even forever, to generation and generation they shall dwell in it

¹ Who this coming from Edom, splendid with garments from Bozra? this adorned in his attire, bowing himself in his strength? I, speaking in justice, great for salvation. ² Wherefore red to thine attire, and thy garments as he treading in the wine press? ³ I trod the wine-press alone; and from the people not a man with me: and I will tread them down in my wrath, and I will trample them in mine anger, and their juice shall be sprinkled upon my garment, and I will stain all my vestment ⁴ For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redemption came. ⁵ And I shall look, and none helping; and I shall be astonished and none upholding: and my arm will save for me, and my wrath it upheld me. ⁶ And I:will tread down peoples in mine anger; and I will make them drunk in my wrath, and I will bring down their juice to the earth.

⁴ Consecrate ye war against her; arise, and we will go up at noon. Wo to us! for the day turned away, for the shadows of the evening will stretch forth. ⁵ Arise, and we will go up in the night, and we will destroy her fortresses.

²⁵ Behold, the days coming, says Jehovah, and I reviewed over all the circumcised with the uncircumcised; ²⁶ Over Egypt and over Judah and over Edom, and over the sons of Ammon, and over Moab, and over all cut off of the extremity dwelling in the desert: for all the nations being uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel uncircumcised of heart

¹⁷ And I shall take the cup from the hand of Jehovah, and I shall cause all the nations. which Jehovah sent me to them to drink.

²¹ Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon,

⁷ To Edom, thus said Jehovah of armies, Is wisdom no more in Teman? did counsel perish from the discerning? was their wisdom poured out? ⁸ Flee ye, turn back, make deep to dwell, ye dwelling in Dedan; for I brought the calamity of Esau upon him, the time of his reviewing. ⁹ If the vintages came to thee will they not leave gleanings? if thieves by night, they destroyed their sufficiency. ¹⁰ For I made Esau naked, I uncovered his secret places, he shall not be able to hide: his seed was laid waste, and his brethren and his neighbors, and he is not ¹¹ Leave thine orphans, I will preserve alive, and thy widows shall trust upon me. ¹² For thus said Jehovah: Behold, whose judgment was not to drink the cup, drinking, they will drink; and art thou he being acquitted, shalt thou be unpunished? thou shalt not be unpunished, for drinking, thou shalt drink. ¹³ For by myself did I swear, says Jehovah, that Bozrah shall be for a desolation, for a reproach, and for a waste, and for a curse; and all her cities shall be for wastes forever. ¹⁴ I heard a report from Jehovah, and a messenger sent to the nations: Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up for war. ¹⁵ For behold, I gave thee small among the nations, despised among men. ¹⁶ Thy terror deceived thee, the pride of thy heart, thou dwelling in the asylums of the rock, holding the height of the hill: if thou shalt make thy nest high as the eagle, from thence will I bring thee down, says Jehovah. ¹⁷ And Edom was for a desolation: all passing over her shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all her blows. ¹⁸ As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and her neighbors, said Jehovah, a man shall not dwell there, and the son of man shall not sojourn in her. ¹⁹ Behold, as the lion he shall come up from the excellency of Jordan against the habitation of strength: for I will wink, I will cause him to run from her: and who the chosen I shall appoint to her? for who like me? and who shall testify for me? and who this shepherd which shall stand before me? ²⁰ For this, hear ye the counsel of Jehovah which he counseled against Edom: and his purposes which he purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: If not the least of the flock will drag them out: if he shall not make their habitation destitute upon them. ²¹ From the voice of their falling the earth trembled, at the cry its voice was heard in the sea of sedge. ²² Behold, as the eagle he shall come up and fly and spread his wings over Bozrah, and the heart of the strong of Edom was in that day as the heart of a woman being distressed.

⁹ For behold I raise up and bring up against Babel a convocation of great nations from the land of the north: and they arranged against her; from thence she shall be taken: his arrow as of a strong destroyer shall not turn back in vain. ¹⁰ And Chaldea was for a spoil: all spoiling her shall be satisfied, says Jehovah. ¹¹ Because thou wilt be glad, because thou wilt exult, ye plundering mine inheritance, because thou wilt show off proudly as a heifer at grass, and thou wilt neigh as the strong ones; ¹² Your mother was greatly ashamed; she bearing you was put to shame: behold the last of the nations a desert, dryness and a sterile region. ¹³ From the wrath of Jehovah she shall not be inhabited, and it was wholly a desolation: every one passing over Babel shall be astonished and shall hiss at all her blows. ¹⁴ Arrange yourselves against Babel round about: all ye bending the bow, cast at her, ye shall not spare to the arrow, for she sinned against Jehovah. ¹⁵ Shout against her round about: she gave her hand: her supports fell, her walls were pulled down: for it is the vengeance of Jehovah: avenge ye upon her; as she did, do ye to her.

²⁷ Lift up a signal in the earth, strike ye the trumpet in the nations, consecrate the nations against her, cause ye to be heard against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint over her a satrap; bring up the horse as the bristling locust ²⁸ Consecrate against her the nations, with the kings of the Medes, her prefects and all her rulers, and all the land of his dominion.

⁴⁶ And lest your heart shall be faint and ye be afraid for the report being heard in the land; and a report came in a year, and after it in a year a report, and violence in the land, dominion against dominion.

²¹ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, dwelling in the land of Uz; also upon thee shall the cup pass: thou shalt be drunken, and make thyself naked. ²² Thine iniquity was finished, O daughter of Zion; he will not add to carry thee into exile: reviewing thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he uncovered upon thy sins.

¹² Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because Edom did against the house of Judah by revenging vengeance, and they will transgress a transgression, and they revenged against them; ¹³ For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: and I stretched out my hand upon Edom, and I cut of from her man and cattle; and I gave her a waste from the south; and Dedan shall fall by the sword. ¹⁴ And I gave my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they did in Edom according to mine anger and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord Jehovah.

³ And say to it, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me against thee, O mount Seir; and I stretched out my hand upon thee a desolation and an amazement ⁴ I will set thy cities a waste, and thou shalt be a desolation, and thou knewest that I am Jehovah. ⁵ Because there was a perpetual enmity to thee, and thou wilt pour out the sons of Israel by the hands of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of iniquity the end: ⁶ For this, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, for I will make thee for blood and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hatedst not blood, and blood shall pursue thee. ⁷ And I gave mount Seir for a desolation, and desolation, and I cut off from it him passing through and him turning back. ⁸ And I filled his mountains with his wounded: in thy hills and in thy valleys, and all thy torrents the wounded of the sword shall fall in them: ⁹ I will give thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye knew that I am Jehovah. ¹⁰ Because of thy saying, The two nations and the two lands shall be to me, and we will possess it; and Jehovah was there: ¹¹ For this, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, and I did according to thine anger and according to thine envy which thou didst in thy hatred against them; and I was known among them according to that I will judge thee. ¹² And thou knewest that I am Jehovah; I heard all thy reproaches which thou spakest against the mountains of Israel, saying, They were given to us a desolation to consume. ¹³ And ye will be magnified against me with your mouth, and ye multiplied your words against me: I heard. ¹⁴ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: When all the earth rejoiced I will make thee a desolation. ¹⁵ For thy rejoicing at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was a desolation, thus will I do to thee: thou shalt be a desolation O mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it: and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

¹⁹ Egypt shall be for a desolation, and Edom shall be for a desert of desolation from violence to the sons of Judah, because they poured out innocent blood in their land.

¹¹ Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn it back: for his pursuing his brother with the sword, and he destroyed his compassions, and his anger will rend forever, and his wrath was observed perpetually. ¹² And I sent a fire upon Teman and it devoured the palaces of Bozrah.

¹³ He breaking forth came up before them: they broke forth and they will pass through the gate, they will go forth by it; and their king will pass through before them and Jehovah at their head.

³ And I hated Esau, and I will set his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance for the jackals of the desert ⁴ For Edom will say, We were broken down, and we will turn back and build the wastes; thus said Jehovah of armies: They shall build and I will pull down; and calling to them, The bound of injustice, and, The people with whom Jehovah was very angry, even to forever.

⁶ And ye will be about to hear of wars and rumors of war: see, be not terrified; for all must be, but the end is not yet.

⁷ And when ye hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not terrified: for it must be; but the end is not yet.