Obadiah 10-21
English Standard Version
Edom's Violence Against Jacob
10 (A)Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
shame shall cover you,
(B)and you shall be cut off forever.
11 (C)On the day that you stood aloof,
(D)on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
(E)and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.
12 (F)But do not gloat over the day of your brother
in the day of his misfortune;
(G)do not rejoice over the people of Judah
in the day of their ruin;
(H)do not boast[a]
in the day of distress.
13 (I)Do not enter the gate of my people
in the day of their calamity;
(J)do not gloat over his disaster
in the day of his calamity;
(K)do not loot his wealth
in the day of his calamity.
14 (L)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
15 For (M)the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.
(N)As you have done, it shall be done to you;
your deeds shall return on your own head.
16 (O)For as you have drunk on (P)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 (Q)But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,
and it shall be holy,
(R)and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
18 (S)The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
and the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau (T)stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
(U)and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.
The Kingdom of the Lord
19 Those of (V)the Negeb (W)shall possess (X)Mount Esau,
and those of the Shephelah shall possess (Y)the land of the Philistines;
they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of (Z)Samaria,
and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 The exiles of this host of the people of Israel
shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as (AA)Zarephath,
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
21 (AB)Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion
to rule (AC)Mount Esau,
and (AD)the kingdom shall be the Lord's.
Footnotes
- Obadiah 1:12 Hebrew do not enlarge your mouth
Jonah 1
English Standard Version
Jonah Flees the Presence of the Lord
1 Now the word of the Lord came to (A)Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to (B)Nineveh, that (C)great city, and call out against it, (D)for their evil[a] has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah (E)rose to flee to (F)Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to (G)Joppa and found a ship going to (H)Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to (I)Tarshish, (J)away from the presence of the Lord.
4 But (K)the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened (L)to break up. 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and (M)each cried out to his god. And (N)they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep. 6 So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, (O)call out to your god! (P)Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”
Jonah Is Thrown into the Sea
7 And they said to one another, “Come, let us (Q)cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. 8 Then they said to him, “Tell us on whose account this evil has come upon us. What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?” 9 And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear (R)the Lord, the God of heaven, (S)who made the sea and the dry land.” 10 Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, “What is this that you have done!” For the men knew that (T)he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.
11 Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?” For the sea grew more and more tempestuous. 12 He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, (U)for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.” 13 Nevertheless, the men rowed hard[b] to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. 14 Therefore they called out to the Lord, “O Lord, let us not perish for this man's life, and (V)lay not on us innocent blood, (W)for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.” 15 So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, (X)and the sea ceased from its raging. 16 Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, (Y)and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord (Z)and made vows.
A Great Fish Swallows Jonah
17 [c] And the Lord appointed[d] a great fish to swallow up Jonah. (AA)And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Footnotes
- Jonah 1:2 The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah
- Jonah 1:13 Hebrew the men dug in [their oars]
- Jonah 1:17 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
- Jonah 1:17 Or had appointed
Micah 1-3
English Standard Version
1 The word of the Lord that came to Micah (A)of Moresheth (B)in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw (C)concerning (D)Samaria and Jerusalem.
The Coming Destruction
2 (E)Hear, you peoples, all of you;[a]
(F)pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,
and (G)let the Lord God be a witness against you,
(H)the Lord from his holy temple.
3 For behold, (I)the Lord is coming out of (J)his place,
and will come down and (K)tread upon the high places of the earth.
4 And (L)the mountains will melt under him,
and the valleys will split open,
like wax before the fire,
like waters poured down a steep place.
5 All this is for (M)the transgression of Jacob
and for the sins of the house of Israel.
(N)What is the transgression of Jacob?
Is it not (O)Samaria?
And what is (P)the high place of Judah?
Is it not Jerusalem?
6 Therefore I will make (Q)Samaria (R)a heap in the open country,
a place for planting vineyards,
and I will pour down her stones (S)into the valley
and (T)uncover her foundations.
7 All (U)her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
(V)all her wages shall be burned with fire,
and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from (W)the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.
8 (X)For this I will lament and wail;
I will go (Y)stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation (Z)like the jackals,
and mourning (AA)like the ostriches.
9 (AB)For her wound is incurable,
and it has come to Judah;
it has reached to the gate of my people,
to Jerusalem.
10 (AC)Tell it not in (AD)Gath;
weep not at all;
in Beth-le-aphrah
(AE)roll yourselves in the dust.
11 Pass on your way,
inhabitants of Shaphir,
(AF)in nakedness and shame;
the inhabitants of Zaanan
do not come out;
the lamentation of Beth-ezel
shall take away from you its standing place.
12 For the inhabitants of Maroth
wait anxiously for good,
because disaster has come down (AG)from the Lord
to the gate of Jerusalem.
13 Harness the steeds to the chariots,
inhabitants of (AH)Lachish;
it was the beginning of sin
to the daughter of Zion,
for in you were found
(AI)the transgressions of Israel.
14 Therefore you shall give parting gifts[b]
to (AJ)Moresheth-gath;
the houses of (AK)Achzib shall be a deceitful thing
to the kings of Israel.
15 I will again bring (AL)a conqueror to you,
inhabitants of (AM)Mareshah;
the glory of Israel
shall come to (AN)Adullam.
16 (AO)Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair,
for the children of your delight;
(AP)make yourselves as bald as the eagle,
for they shall go from you into exile.
Woe to the Oppressors
2 (AQ)Woe to those who devise wickedness
and work evil (AR)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They covet fields and (AS)seize them,
and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
3 Therefore thus says the Lord:
behold, against (AT)this family I am devising disaster,[c]
from which you cannot remove your necks,
and you (AU)shall not walk haughtily,
(AV)for it will be a time of disaster.
4 In that day (AW)they shall take up a taunt song against you
and moan bitterly,
and say, “We are utterly ruined;
(AX)he changes the portion of my people;
(AY)how he removes it from me!
(AZ)To an apostate he allots our fields.”
5 Therefore you will have none (BA)to cast the line by lot
in the assembly of the Lord.
6 (BB)“Do not preach”—thus they preach—
(BC)“one should not preach of such things;
(BD)disgrace will not overtake us.”
7 Should this be said, O house of Jacob?
(BE)Has the Lord grown impatient?[d]
Are these his deeds?
Do not my words do good
to him who walks uprightly?
8 But lately (BF)my people have risen up as an enemy;
you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly
with no thought of war.[e]
9 The women of my people you drive out
from their delightful houses;
from their young children you take away
my splendor forever.
10 (BG)Arise and go,
for this is no (BH)place to rest,
because of (BI)uncleanness that destroys
with a grievous destruction.
11 If a man should go about and (BJ)utter wind and lies,
saying, “I will preach to you (BK)of wine and strong drink,”
he would be the preacher for this people!
12 I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;
(BL)I will gather (BM)the remnant of Israel;
I will set them together
like sheep in a fold,
(BN)like a flock in its pasture,
a noisy multitude of men.
13 (BO)He who opens the breach goes up before them;
they break through and pass the gate,
(BP)going out by it.
Their king passes on before them,
(BQ)the Lord at their head.
Rulers and Prophets Denounced
3 And I said:
(BR)Hear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
(BS)Is it not for you to know justice?—
2 you (BT)who hate the good and love the evil,
(BU)who tear the skin from off my people[f]
and their flesh from off their bones,
3 (BV)who eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.
4 (BW)Then they will cry to the Lord,
but he will not answer them;
(BX)he will hide his face from them at that time,
because they have made their deeds evil.
5 Thus says the Lord concerning (BY)the prophets
who lead my people astray,
(BZ)who cry “Peace”
when they have something to eat,
but declare war against him
who puts nothing into their mouths.
6 Therefore (CA)it shall be night to you, without vision,
and darkness to you, without divination.
(CB)The sun shall go down on the prophets,
and the day shall be black over them;
7 (CC)the seers shall be disgraced,
and the diviners put to shame;
(CD)they shall all cover their lips,
for (CE)there is no answer from God.
8 But as for me, (CF)I am filled with power,
with the Spirit of the Lord,
and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob (CG)his transgression
and to Israel his sin.
9 (CH)Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel,
(CI)who detest justice
and make crooked all that is straight,
10 (CJ)who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 (CK)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
(CL)its priests teach for a price;
(CM)its prophets practice divination for money;
(CN)yet they lean on the Lord and (CO)say,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
(CP)No disaster shall come upon us.”
12 Therefore because of you
(CQ)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem (CR)shall become a heap of ruins,
and (CS)the mountain of the house (CT)a wooded height.
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