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Obadiah 1:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Everyone who has a treaty with you will drive you to the border; everyone at peace with you will deceive and conquer you. Those who eat your bread will set  a trap for you. He will be unaware of it.

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About Edom,  this is what the Lord of Armies says: Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom rotted away?


All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer look for you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline  of someone cruel, because of your enormous guilt and your innumerable sins.


‘I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen.   But the Scripture   must be fulfilled:   The one who eats my bread   has raised his heel against me.   ,


Labour pains come on him. He is not a wise son; when the time comes, he will not be born.  ,


I called to my lovers, but they betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while searching for food to keep themselves alive.


“All the women  who remain in the palace of Judah’s king will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon and will say to you, ‘Your trusted friends  misled   you and overcame you. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’


For I have heard the gossip of many people, ‘Terror is on every side! Report him; let’s report him! ’ Everyone I trusted  watches for my fall. ‘Perhaps he will be deceived so that we might prevail against him and take our vengeance on him.’


And you, devastated one, what are you doing that you dress yourself in scarlet, that you adorn yourself with gold jewellery, that you enhance your eyes with makeup? You beautify yourself for nothing. Your lovers reject you; they intend to take your life.


When its branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker  will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them.


So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove; they call to Egypt,  and they go to Assyria.





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