Amos 9 - Obadiah

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The Destruction of Israel

9 I saw the Lord standing beside^[a] the altar, and he said:

^(A)“Strike the capitals until ^(B)the thresholds ^(C)shake,
    ^(D)and shatter them on the heads of all the people;^[b]
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
    ^(E)not one of them shall flee away;
    not one of them shall escape.

²^(F)“If they dig into Sheol,
    from there shall my hand take them;
^(G)if they climb up to heaven,
    from there I will bring them down.
³If they hide themselves on ^(H)the top of Carmel,
    from there I will search them out and take them;
^(I)and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
    there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
⁴^(J)And if they go into captivity before their enemies,
    there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
^(K)and I will fix my eyes upon them
    for evil and not for good.”

⁵The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and ^(L)it melts,
    and all who dwell in it mourn,
^(M)and all of it rises like the Nile,
    ^(N)and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
⁶^(O)who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
    and founds his vault upon the earth;
^(P)who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
^(Q)the Lord is his name.

⁷“Are you not like ^(R)the Cushites to me,
    O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
^(S)“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
    and ^(T)the Philistines from ^(U)Caphtor and the Syrians from ^(V)Kir?
⁸Behold, ^(W)the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
    and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
    ^(X)except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.

⁹“For behold, I will command,
    ^(Y)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
    but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
¹⁰All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
    who say, ^(Z)‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’

The Restoration of Israel

¹¹“In that day ^(AA)I will raise up
    the booth of David that is fallen
and repair its breaches,
    and raise up its ruins
    and rebuild it as in the days of old,
¹²^(AB)that they may possess the remnant of Edom
    and ^(AC)all the nations who are called by my name,”^[c]
    declares the Lord who does this.

¹³“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    ^(AD)“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper
    and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;
^(AE)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and all the hills shall flow with it.
¹⁴^(AF)I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
    and ^(AG)they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
^(AH)they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
    and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
¹⁵^(AI)I will plant them on their land,
    ^(AJ)and they shall never again be uprooted
    out of the land ^(AK)that I have given them,”
says the Lord your God.

¹The vision of Obadiah.

Edom Will Be Humbled

Thus says the Lord God ^(AL)concerning Edom:
^(AM)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!”
²Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
    you shall be utterly despised.^[d]
³^(AN)The pride of your heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rock,^[e]
    in your lofty dwelling,
^(AO)who say in your heart,
    “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
⁴Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
    though your nest is set among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,
declares the Lord.

⁵If ^(AP)thieves came to you,
    if plunderers came by night—
    how you have been destroyed!—
    would they not steal only enough for themselves?
If ^(AQ)grape gatherers came to you,
    would they not leave gleanings?
⁶^(AR)How Esau has been pillaged,
    his treasures sought out!
⁷All your allies have driven you to your border;
    those at peace with you have deceived you;
they have prevailed against you;
    ^(AS)those who eat your bread^[f] have set a trap beneath you—
    ^(AT)you have^[g] no understanding.

⁸^(AU)Will I not on that day, declares the Lord,
    destroy the wise men out of Edom,
    and understanding out of ^(AV)Mount Esau?
⁹And your mighty men shall be dismayed, ^(AW)O Teman,
    so that every man from ^(AX)Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

Edom's Violence Against Jacob

¹⁰^(AY)Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
    shame shall cover you,
    ^(AZ)and you shall be cut off forever.
¹¹^(BA)On the day that you stood aloof,
    ^(BB)on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
    ^(BC)and cast lots for Jerusalem,
    you were like one of them.
¹²^(BD)But do not gloat over the day of your brother
    in the day of his misfortune;
^(BE)do not rejoice over the people of Judah
    in the day of their ruin;
^(BF)do not boast^[h]
    in the day of distress.
¹³^(BG)Do not enter the gate of my people
    in the day of their calamity;
^(BH)do not gloat over his disaster
    in the day of his calamity;
^(BI)do not loot his wealth
    in the day of his calamity.
¹⁴^(BJ)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

¹⁵For ^(BK)the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.
^(BL)As you have done, it shall be done to you;
    your deeds shall return on your own head.
¹⁶^(BM)For as you have drunk on ^(BN)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^(BO)But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,
    and it shall be holy,
^(BP)and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
¹⁸^(BQ)The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
    and the house of Joseph a flame,
    and the house of Esau ^(BR)stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
    ^(BS)and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.

The Kingdom of the Lord

¹⁹Those of ^(BT)the Negeb ^(BU)shall possess ^(BV)Mount Esau,
    and those of the Shephelah shall possess ^(BW)the land of the Philistines;
they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of ^(BX)Samaria,
    and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
²⁰The exiles of this host of the people of Israel
    shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as ^(BY)Zarephath,
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
    shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
²¹^(BZ)Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion
    to rule ^(CA)Mount Esau,
    and ^(CB)the kingdom shall be the Lord's.

Footnotes

Amos 9:1 Or on
Amos 9:1 Hebrew all of them
Amos 9:12 Hebrew; Septuagint (compare Acts 15:17) that the remnant of mankind and all the nations who are called by my name may seek the Lord
Obadiah 1:2 Or Behold, I have made you small among the nations; you are utterly despised
Obadiah 1:3 Or of Sela
Obadiah 1:7 Hebrew lacks those who eat
Obadiah 1:7 Hebrew he has
Obadiah 1:12 Hebrew do not enlarge your mouth