Obadiah

New American Standard Bible

Edom Will Be Humbled

¹The vision of Obadiah.

This is what the Lord ^[a]God says concerning ^(A)Edom—

^(B)We have heard a report from the Lord,
And a ^(C)messenger has been sent among the nations saying,
“^(D)Arise, and let’s go up against her for battle”—
²“Behold, I will make you ^(E)small among the nations;
You are greatly despised.
³The ^(F)arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
The one who lives in the clefts of ^[b]the ^(G)rock,
On the height of his dwelling place,
Who says in his heart,
‘^(H)Who will bring me down to earth?’
⁴Though you ^(I)make your home high like the eagle,
Though you set your nest among the ^(J)stars,
From there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.
⁵“If ^(K)thieves came to you,
If ^[c]robbers by night—
Oh how you will be ruined!—
Would they not steal only ^[d]until they had enough?
If grape-pickers came to you,
^(L)Would they not leave some gleanings?
⁶Oh how Esau will be ^(M)searched,
And his hidden treasures searched out!
⁷All the ^(N)people ^[e]allied with you
Will send you to the border,
And the people at peace with you
Will deceive you and overpower you.
They who eat your ^(O)bread
Will set an ambush for you.
(There is ^(P)no understanding ^[f]in him.)
⁸Will I not on that day,” declares the Lord,
“^(Q)Eliminate wise men from Edom,
And understanding from the mountain of Esau?
⁹Then your ^(R)warriors will be filled with terror, ^(S)Teman,
So that everyone will be ^(T)eliminated from the mountain of Esau by murder.

¹⁰“Because of ^(U)violence to your brother Jacob,
Shame will cover you,
^(V)And you will be eliminated forever.
¹¹On the day that you ^(W)stood aloof,
On the day that strangers carried off his wealth,
And foreigners entered his gate
And ^(X)cast lots for Jerusalem—
^(Y)You too were as one of them.
¹²^(Z)Do not ^[g]gloat over your brother’s day,
The day of his misfortune.
And ^(AA)do not rejoice over the sons of Judah
On the day of their destruction;
Yes, ^(AB)do not ^[h]boast
On the day of their distress.
¹³Do not enter the gate of My people
On the ^(AC)day of their disaster.
You indeed, do not ^[i]gloat over their catastrophe
On the day of their disaster.
And do not ^(AD)lay a hand on their wealth
On the day of their disaster.
¹⁴Do not ^(AE)stand at the crossroads
To eliminate their survivors;
And do not hand over their refugees
On the day of their distress.

The Day of the Lord and the Future

¹⁵“For the ^(AF)day of the Lord is near for all the nations.
^(AG)Just as you have done, it will be done to you.
Your ^(AH)dealings will return on your own head.
¹⁶For just as you ^(AI)drank on ^(AJ)My holy mountain,
All the nations ^(AK)will drink continually.
They will drink ^[j]to the last drop,
And become as if they had never existed.
¹⁷But on Mount ^(AL)Zion there will be those who escape,
And it will be holy.
And the house of Jacob will ^[k]^(AM)possess their ^[l]property.
¹⁸Then the house of Jacob will be a ^(AN)fire,
And the house of Joseph a flame;
But the house of Esau will be like stubble.
And they will set ^[m]them on fire and consume ^[n]them,
So that there will be ^(AO)no survivor of the house of Esau,”
For the Lord has spoken.
¹⁹Then those of the ^[o]Negev will ^[p]^(AP)possess the mountain of Esau,
And those of the ^[q]Shephelah the ^(AQ)Philistine plain;
Also, ^(AR)they will ^[r]possess the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria,
And Benjamin the territory of Gilead.
²⁰And the exiles of this army of the sons of Israel,
Who are among the Canaanites as far as ^(AS)Zarephath,
And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad,
Will ^[s]possess the ^(AT)cities of the Negev.
²¹^[t]The ^(AU)deliverers will ascend Mount Zion
To judge the mountain of Esau,
And the ^(AV)kingdom will be the Lord’s.

Footnotes

Obadiah 1:1 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
Obadiah 1:3 Or Sela
Obadiah 1:5 Lit devastators of the night
Obadiah 1:5 Lit their sufficiency
Obadiah 1:7 Lit of your covenant
Obadiah 1:7 I.e., in Esau; or of it
Obadiah 1:12 Lit look on
Obadiah 1:12 Lit make your mouth large
Obadiah 1:13 Lit look at
Obadiah 1:16 Lit and slurp
Obadiah 1:17 Or take possession of
Obadiah 1:17 or inheritance
Obadiah 1:18 I.e., the people of Esau
Obadiah 1:18 I.e., the people of Esau
Obadiah 1:19 I.e., South country
Obadiah 1:19 Or take possession of
Obadiah 1:19 I.e., the foothills
Obadiah 1:19 Or take possession of
Obadiah 1:20 Or take possession of
Obadiah 1:21 Or with ancient versions Those who are rescued

Revelation 9

New American Standard Bible

The Fifth Trumpet: Shaft of the Abyss

9 Then the ^(A)fifth angel sounded, and I saw a ^(B)star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the ^(C)key to the ^(D)shaft of the abyss was given to him. ²He opened the shaft of the abyss, and ^(E)smoke ascended out of the shaft like the smoke of a great furnace; and ^(F)the sun and the air were darkened from the smoke of the shaft. ³Then out of the smoke came ^(G)locusts ^[a]upon the earth, and power was given them, as the ^(H)scorpions of the earth have power. ⁴They were told not to ^(I)hurt the ^(J)grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the people who do not have the ^(K)seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵And ^[b]they were not permitted to kill ^[c]anyone, but to torment for ^(L)five months; and their torment was like the torment of a ^(M)scorpion when it ^[d]stings a person. ⁶And in those days ^(N)people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death ^[e]will flee from them!

⁷The ^[f]^(O)appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like human faces. ⁸They had hair like the hair of women, and their ^(P)teeth were like the teeth of lions. ⁹They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the ^(Q)sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle. ¹⁰They have tails like ^(R)scorpions, and stings; and in their ^(S)tails is their power to hurt people for ^(T)five months. ¹¹They have as king over them, the angel of the ^(U)abyss; his name in ^(V)Hebrew is ^[g]^(W)Abaddon, and in the Greek he has the name ^[h]Apollyon.

¹²^(X)The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

The Sixth Trumpet: Army from the East

¹³Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard ^[i]a voice from the ^[j]four ^(Y)horns of the ^(Z)golden altar which is before God, ¹⁴saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the ^(AA)four angels who are bound at the ^(AB)great river Euphrates.” ¹⁵And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were ^(AC)released, so that they would kill a ^(AD)third of mankind. ¹⁶The number of the armies of the horsemen was ^(AE)two hundred million; ^(AF)I heard the number of them. ¹⁷And this is how I saw ^(AG)in my vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire, of hyacinth, and of ^[k]^(AH)brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and ^(AI)out of their mouths *came fire and smoke and ^[l]^(AJ)brimstone. ¹⁸A ^(AK)third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the ^(AL)fire, the smoke, and the ^[m]brimstone which came out of their mouths. ¹⁹For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm.

²⁰The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^(AM)did not repent of ^(AN)the works of their hands so as not to ^(AO)worship demons and ^(AP)the idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; ²¹and they ^(AQ)did not repent of their murders, nor of their ^(AR)witchcraft, nor of their ^(AS)sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.