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Obadiah 1:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You stood there and watched as foreigners entered Jerusalem and took what they wanted. In fact, you were no better than those foreigners.

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He led away as prisoners the people left in the city, including those who had become loyal to Nebuchadnezzar.

Our LORD, punish the Edomites! Because the day Jerusalem fell, they shouted, “Completely destroy the city! Tear down every building!”

You made friends with every criminal you met, and you liked people who break their wedding vows.

All of them fully agree in their plans against you, and among them are

Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites;

You thought the nations of Judah and Israel belonged to you, and that you could take over their territory. But I am their God,

and gambled to see who would get my people; they sold boys and girls to pay for prostitutes and wine.

The LORD said: I will punish Philistia for countless crimes, and I won't change my mind. They dragged off my people from town after town to sell them as slaves to the Edomites.

The LORD said: I will punish Phoenicia for countless crimes, and I won't change my mind. They broke their treaty and dragged off my people from town after town to sell them as slaves to the Edomites.

But she was captured and taken to a foreign country. Her children were murdered at every street corner. The members of her royal family were auctioned off, and her high officials were bound in chains.

This is how Moab and Ammon will at last be repaid for their pride— and for sneering at the nation that belongs to me, the LORD All-Powerful.




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