Obadiah

1  *The vision of Obadiah.

Thus saith the Lord God aconcerning Edom;

bcWe have heard a rumour from the Lord,

And an ambassador is sent among the heathen,

Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

2  cBehold, I have made thee small among the heathen:

Thou art greatly despised.

3  cThe pride of thine heart hath mdeceived thee,

Thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose dhabitation is high;

eThat saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

4  ceThough thou exalt thyself as the eagle,

And efgthough thou set thy nest among the stars,

gThence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

5  hIf thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou icut off!)

Would they not have stolen till they had enough?

hIf the grapegatherers came to thee,

kWould they not leave ||some grapes?

6  lHow are the things of Esau searched out!

How are his hidden things sought up!

7  All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border:

†The men that were at peace with thee have mdeceived thee, and prevailed against thee;

†nThey that eat thy bread have laid oa wound under thee:

pThere is none understanding ||in him.

8  qShall I not rin that day, saith the Lord,

Even destroy pthe wise men out of Edom,

And punderstanding out of sthe mount of Esau?

9  And tthy mighty men, O puTeman, shall be dismayed,

To the end that every one of sthe mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

10  vFor thy wviolence against xthy brother Jacob shame wshall cover thee,

And ythou shalt be cut off for ever.

11  vIn the day that thou stoodest on the other side,

In the day that the strangers ||carried away captive his forces,

And foreigners entered into his gates,

And acast lots upon Jerusalem,

Even thou wast as one of them.

12  But ||thou shouldest not have blooked on cthe day of thy brother in the day dthat he became a stranger;

Neither shouldest thou have erejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction;

Neither shouldest thou have †spoken proudly in the day of distress.

13  Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people fin the day of their calamity:

Yea, thou shouldest not have blooked on their affliction in the day of their calamity,

gNor have hlaid hands on their ||substance in the day of their calamity;

14  Neither shouldest thou have stood in ithe crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape;

Neither shouldest thou have ||delivered up kthose of his that did remain in the day of distress.

15  lmFor the day of the Lord is near mupon all the heathen:

nAs thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee;

o*Thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

16  For pas ye have drunk upon qmy holy mountain,

So pshall all the heathen drink continually,

Yea, pthey shall drink, and they shall ||swallow down,

And rthey shall be as though they had not been.

17  But supon mount Zion tshall be ||deliverance, and ||there shall be holiness;

And tuthe house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

18  And the house of Jacob vshall be a fire,

And the house of Joseph va flame,

And the house of Esau wfor stubble,

And they shall xkindle in them, and vdevour them;

And ythere shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau;

For the Lord hath spoken it.

19  And they of zthe south ashall possess bthe mount of Esau;

And cthey of zthe plain the Philistines:

And they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of dSamaria:

And Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

20  And athe captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto eZarephath;

And the captivity of Jerusalem, ||which is in Sepharad,

Shall possess the cities of zthe south.

21  And fsaviours shall come up on gmount Zion to judge bthe mount of Esau;

And hthe kingdom shall be the Lord’s.

†Jonah

1 *Now the word of the Lord came unto a||Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 Arise, go to bcNineveh, cthat great city, and cry against it; for dtheir wickedness eis come up before me. 3 But Jonah rose up fto flee unto gTarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to hJoppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and iwent down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish kfrom the presence of the Lord.

4 But the Lord †sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was la mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship †was like nto be broken. 5 Then othe mariners were afraid, and pcried every man unto his god, and qcast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, qto lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and rwas fast asleep. 6 So sthe shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, ssWhat meanest thou, rO sleeper? arise, pcall upon thy God, tif so be that God will uthink upon us, that we perish not.

7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and vlet us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah. 8 Then said they unto him, wTell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou? 9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear ||the Lord, xthe God of heaven, ywhich hath made the sea and the dry land. 10 Then were the men †exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled kfrom the presence of the Lord, because he had told them. 11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea †may be calm unto us? for the sea ||†wrought, and was tempestuous. 12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. 13 Nevertheless the men †rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea ||†wrought, and was tempestuous against them. 14 Wherefore they cried unto zthe Lord, and said, We beseech thee, O Lord, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and alay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O Lord, bhast done as it pleased thee. 15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and cthe sea †ceased from her raging. 16 Then dthe men feared the Lord exceedingly, and †egoffered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and gmade vows.

17 Now the Lord had hprepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And iJonah was in the †belly of the fish three days and three nights.

2 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly, 2 And said,

aI cried ||by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and ahe heard me;

Out of the belly of ||hell cried I, and bthou heardest my voice.

3  For cthou hadst cast me into the deep, in the †midst of the seas;

And the floods compassed me about:

dAll thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

4  eThen I said, I am cast out of thy sight;

Yet fI will look again fgtoward thy holy temple.

5  The hwaters icompassed me about, keven to the soul:

The depth closed me round about,

The weeds were wrapped habout my head.

6  I went down to the †lbottoms of the mountains;

The earth with mher bars was mmabout me for ever:

Yet hast thou brought up nmy life nofrom ||corruption, O Lord my God.

7  When pmy soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord:

And qmy prayer came in unto thee, qinto rthine holy temple.

8  sThey that observe lying tvanities forsake utheir own mercy.

9  But vI will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving;

vwI will pay that that I have vowed.

xSalvation is of the Lord.

10 And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.