Obadiah 1:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Teman, , your warriors will be terrified so that everyone from the hill country of Esau will be destroyed by slaughter. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that everyone from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter. American Standard Version (1901) And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter. Common English Bible Your warriors will be shattered, Teman, and everyone from Mount Esau will be eliminated. Catholic Public Domain Version And your strong from the Meridian will be afraid, so that man may perish from the mount of Esau. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau. |
When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
Now when Job’s three friends #– #Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite #– #heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathise with him and comfort him.
Therefore, hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Edom and the strategies he has devised against the people of Teman: The flock’s little lambs will certainly be dragged away, and their grazing land will be made desolate because of them.
Look! It will be like an eagle soaring upwards, then swooping down and spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.
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?
therefore this is what the Lord God says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off both people and animals from it. I will make it a wasteland; they will fall by the sword from Teman to Dedan.
Therefore, I will send fire against Teman, and it will consume the citadels of Bozrah.
Even the most courageous of the warriors will flee naked on that day – this is the Lord’s declaration.
Saviours will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the hill country of Esau, and the kingdom will be the Lord’s.
If thieves came to you, if marauders by night – how ravaged you would be! – wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted? If grape harvesters came to you, wouldn’t they leave a few grapes?
Look, your troops are like women among you; your land’s city gates are wide open to your enemies. Fire will devour the bars of your gates.
God comes from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His splendour covers the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.
Don’t provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a foot of it, because I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his possession.