Amos 8 - Obadiah

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⁴ Hear this, you who trample the needy
    and do away with the poor^(H) of the land,^(I)

“When will the New Moon^(J) be over
    that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
    that we may market^(K) wheat?”^(L)—
skimping on the measure,
    boosting the price
    and cheating^(M) with dishonest scales,^(N)
6 buying the poor^(O) with silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals,
    selling even the sweepings with the wheat.^(P)

⁸ “Will not the land tremble^(T) for this,
    and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
    it will be stirred up and then sink
    like the river of Egypt.^(U)

“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.^(V)
10 I will turn your religious festivals^(W) into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.^(X)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth^(Y)
    and shave^(Z) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son^(AA)
    and the end of it like a bitter day.^(AB)

¹¹ “The days are coming,”^(AC) declares the Sovereign Lord,
    “when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
    but a famine^(AD) of hearing the words of the Lord.^(AE)
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
    and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
    but they will not find it.^(AF)

“the lovely young women and strong young men^(AG)
    will faint because of thirst.^(AH)
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria^(AI)—
    who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’^(AJ)
    or, ‘As surely as the god^[b] of Beersheba^(AK) lives’—
    they will fall,^(AL) never to rise again.^(AM)”

“Strike the tops of the pillars
    so that the thresholds shake.
Bring them down on the heads^(AN) of all the people;
    those who are left I will kill with the sword.
Not one will get away,
    none will escape.^(AO)
2 Though they dig down to the depths below,^(AP)
    from there my hand will take them.
Though they climb up to the heavens above,^(AQ)
    from there I will bring them down.^(AR)
3 Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,^(AS)
    there I will hunt them down and seize them.^(AT)
Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea,^(AU)
    there I will command the serpent^(AV) to bite them.^(AW)
4 Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,
    there I will command the sword^(AX) to slay them.

“I will keep my eye on them
    for harm^(AY) and not for good.^(AZ)”^(BA)

⁵ The Lord, the Lord Almighty—
he touches the earth and it melts,^(BB)
    and all who live in it mourn;
the whole land rises like the Nile,
    then sinks like the river of Egypt;^(BC)
6 he builds his lofty palace^[c](BD) in the heavens
    and sets its foundation^[d] on the earth;
he calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out over the face of the land—
    the Lord is his name.^(BE)

⁷ “Are not you Israelites
    the same to me as the Cushites^[e]?”^(BF)
declares the Lord.
“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,
    the Philistines^(BG) from Caphtor^[f](BH)
    and the Arameans from Kir?^(BI)

⁸ “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord
    are on the sinful kingdom.
I will destroy^(BJ) it
    from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not totally destroy
    the descendants of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.^(BK)
9 “For I will give the command,
    and I will shake the people of Israel
    among all the nations
as grain^(BL) is shaken in a sieve,^(BM)
    and not a pebble will reach the ground.^(BN)
10 All the sinners among my people
    will die by the sword,^(BO)
all those who say,
    ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’^(BP)

“I will restore David’s^(BQ) fallen shelter^(BR)—
    I will repair its broken walls
    and restore its ruins^(BS)—
    and will rebuild it as it used to be,^(BT)
12 so that they may possess the remnant of Edom^(BU)
    and all the nations that bear my name,^[g](BV)”
declares the Lord, who will do these things.^(BW)

“when the reaper^(BY) will be overtaken by the plowman^(BZ)
    and the planter by the one treading^(CA) grapes.
New wine^(CB) will drip from the mountains
    and flow from all the hills,^(CC)
14     and I will bring^(CD) my people Israel back from exile.^[h](CE)

“They will rebuild the ruined cities^(CF) and live in them.
    They will plant vineyards^(CG) and drink their wine;
    they will make gardens and eat their fruit.^(CH)
15 I will plant^(CI) Israel in their own land,^(CJ)
    never again to be uprooted^(CK)
    from the land I have given them,”^(CL)

says the Lord your God.^(CM)

We have heard a message from the Lord:
    An envoy^(CR) was sent to the nations to say,
“Rise, let us go against her for battle”^(CS)—

² “See, I will make you small^(CT) among the nations;
    you will be utterly despised.
³ The pride^(CU) of your heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rocks^[i](CV)
    and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
    ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’^(CW)
4 Though you soar like the eagle
    and make your nest^(CX) among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,”^(CY)
declares the Lord.^(CZ)
5 “If thieves came to you,
    if robbers in the night—
oh, what a disaster awaits you!—
    would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
    would they not leave a few grapes?^(DA)
6 But how Esau will be ransacked,
    his hidden treasures pillaged!
⁷ All your allies^(DB) will force you to the border;
    your friends will deceive and overpower you;
those who eat your bread^(DC) will set a trap for you,^[j]
    but you will not detect it.

⁸ “In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “will I not destroy^(DD) the wise men of Edom,
    those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
⁹ Your warriors, Teman,^(DE) will be terrified,
    and everyone in Esau’s mountains
    will be cut down in the slaughter.
¹⁰ Because of the violence^(DF) against your brother Jacob,^(DG)
    you will be covered with shame;
    you will be destroyed forever.^(DH)
11 On the day you stood aloof
    while strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
    and cast lots^(DI) for Jerusalem,
    you were like one of them.^(DJ)
12 You should not gloat^(DK) over your brother
    in the day of his misfortune,^(DL)
nor rejoice^(DM) over the people of Judah
    in the day of their destruction,^(DN)
nor boast^(DO) so much
    in the day of their trouble.^(DP)
13 You should not march through the gates of my people
    in the day of their disaster,
nor gloat over them in their calamity^(DQ)
    in the day of their disaster,
nor seize their wealth
    in the day of their disaster.
¹⁴ You should not wait at the crossroads
    to cut down their fugitives,^(DR)
nor hand over their survivors
    in the day of their trouble.

¹⁵ “The day of the Lord is near^(DS)
    for all nations.
As you have done, it will be done to you;
    your deeds^(DT) will return upon your own head.
¹⁶ Just as you drank^(DU) on my holy hill,^(DV)
    so all the nations will drink^(DW) continually;
they will drink and drink
    and be as if they had never been.^(DX)
17 But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;^(DY)
    it will be holy,^(DZ)
    and Jacob will possess his inheritance.^(EA)
18 Jacob will be a fire
    and Joseph a flame;
Esau will be stubble,
    and they will set him on fire^(EB) and destroy^(EC) him.
There will be no survivors^(ED)
    from Esau.”
The Lord has spoken.

¹⁹ People from the Negev will occupy
    the mountains of Esau,
and people from the foothills will possess
    the land of the Philistines.^(EE)
They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,^(EF)
    and Benjamin^(EG) will possess Gilead.
²⁰ This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan
    will possess the land as far as Zarephath;^(EH)
the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
    will possess the towns of the Negev.^(EI)
21 Deliverers^(EJ) will go up on^[k] Mount Zion
    to govern the mountains of Esau.
    And the kingdom will be the Lord’s.^(EK)