then come, let us go up to Bethel, that I may make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”
Obadiah 1:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 You should not have stood at the crossings to cut off his fugitives; you should not have handed over his survivors on the day of distress. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And you should not have stood at the crossway to cut off those of Judah who escaped, neither should you have delivered up those [of Judah] who remained in the day of distress. American Standard Version (1901) And stand thou not in the crossway, to cut off those of his that escape; and deliver not up those of his that remain in the day of distress. Common English Bible You shouldn’t have waited on the roads to destroy his escapees; you shouldn’t have handed over his survivors on the day of defeat. Catholic Public Domain Version Neither shall you stand at the exits to execute those who will flee. And you shall not enclose their remnant in the day of tribulation. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Neither shalt thou stand in the crossways to kill them that flee: and thou shalt not shut up them that remain of him in the day of tribulation. |
then come, let us go up to Bethel, that I may make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”
and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.
“Give counsel; grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; hide the outcasts; do not betray the fugitive;
let the outcasts of Moab settle among you; be a refuge to them from the destroyer.” When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and marauders have vanished from the land,
They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.
Alas! that day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob, yet he shall be rescued from it.
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they carried into exile entire communities, to hand them over to Edom.
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered entire communities over to Edom and did not remember the covenant of kinship.
But you should not have gloated over your brother on the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah on the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted on the day of distress.
Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.’