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Obadiah 1:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.

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Even my bosom friend in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.

I am not speaking of you all; I know whom I have chosen; it is that the scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’

The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; for now he does not present himself at the mouth of the womb.

“I called to my lovers but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength.

Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the princes of the king of Babylon and were saying, ‘Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the mire, they turn away from you.’

For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived, then we can overcome him, and take our revenge on him.”

And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, he that formed them will show them no favor.

But do thou, O Lord, be gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them!

Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.




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