| { |
| "language": "en", |
| "title": "Obadiah", |
| "versionSource": "https://jps.org/books/tanakh-the-holy-scriptures-blue/", |
| "versionTitle": "Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, published by JPS", |
| "status": "locked", |
| "priority": 2.0, |
| "license": "CC-BY-NC", |
| "shortVersionTitle": "JPS, 1985", |
| "purchaseInformationImage": "https://storage.googleapis.com/sefaria-physical-editions/JPS_1985.png", |
| "purchaseInformationURL": "https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/jps/9780827602526/", |
| "actualLanguage": "en", |
| "languageFamilyName": "english", |
| "isBaseText": false, |
| "isSource": false, |
| "direction": "ltr", |
| "heTitle": "עובדיה", |
| "categories": [ |
| "Tanakh", |
| "Prophets" |
| ], |
| "text": [ |
| [ |
| "The prophecy of Obadiah.<br><br>We have received tidings from the L<small>ORD</small>,<br>And an envoy has been sent out among the nations:<br>“Up! Let us rise up against her for battle.”<br><br>Thus said my Lord G<small>OD</small> concerning Edom:", |
| "I will make you least among nations,<br>You shall be most despised.", |
| "Your arrogant heart has seduced you,<br>You who dwell in clefts of the rock,<br>In your lofty abode.<br>You think in your heart,<br>“Who can pull me down to earth?”", |
| "Should you nest as high as the eagle,<br>Should your eyrie be lodged ’mong the stars,<br>Even from there I will pull you down<br>—declares the L<small>ORD</small>.<br>", |
| "If thieves were to come to you,<br>Marauders by night,<br>They would steal no more than they needed.<br>If vintagers came to you,<br>They would surely leave some gleanings.<br>How utterly you are destroyed!", |
| "How thoroughly rifled is Esau,<br>How ransacked his hoards!", |
| "All your allies turned you back<br>At the frontier;<br>Your own confederates<br>Have duped and overcome you;<br>[Those who ate] your bread<br>Have planted snares under you.<br><br>He is bereft of understanding.", |
| "In that day<br>—declares the L<small>ORD</small>—<br>I will make the wise vanish from Edom,<br>Understanding from Esau’s mount.", |
| "Your warriors shall lose heart, O Teman,<br>And not a man on Esau’s mount<br>Shall survive the slaughter.<br>", |
| "For the outrage to your brother Jacob,<br>Disgrace shall engulf you,<br>And you shall perish forever.", |
| "On that day when you stood aloof,<br>When aliens carried off his goods,<br>When foreigners entered his gates<br>And cast lots for Jerusalem,<br>You were as one of them.<br>", |
| "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “Do not,” and so through v. 14.</i>How could you<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-a</sup> gaze with glee<br>On your brother that day,<br>On his day of calamity!<br>How could you gloat<br>Over the people of Judah<br>On that day of ruin!<br>How could you loudly jeer<br>On a day of anguish!", |
| "How could you enter the gate of My people<br>On its day of disaster,<br>Gaze in glee with the others<br>On its misfortune<br>On its day of disaster,<br>And lay hands on its wealth<br>On its day of disaster!", |
| "How could you stand at the passes<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i><br>To cut down its fugitives!<br>How could you betray those who fled<br>On that day of anguish!", |
| "As you did, so shall it be done to you;<br>Your conduct shall be requited.<br><br>Yea, against all nations<br>The day of the L<small>ORD</small> is at hand.", |
| "That same cup that you<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., the Israelites.</i> drank on My Holy Mount<br>Shall all nations drink evermore,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Emendation yields “at My hand,” cf. Isa. 51.17; Jer. 25.15; Ps. 75.9.</i><br>Drink till their speech grows thick,<br>And they become as though they had never been.", |
| "But on Zion’s mount a remnant shall survive,<br>And it shall be holy.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., inviolate; cf. Jer. 2.3.</i><br>The House of Jacob shall dispossess<br>Those who dispossessed them.", |
| "The House of Jacob shall be fire,<br>And the House of Joseph flame,<br>And the House of Esau shall be straw;<br>They shall burn it and devour it,<br>And no survivor shall be left of the House of Esau<br>—for the L<small>ORD</small> has spoken.<br>", |
| "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of parts of vv. 19–21 uncertain.</i>Thus they shall possess the Negeb and Mount Esau as well, the Shephelah and Philistia. They shall possess the Ephraimite country and the district of Samaria,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\">After the exile of the northern tribes, the city and district of Samaria were occupied mainly by non-Israelites.</i> and Benjamin<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">h</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Emendation yields “the land of the Ammonites.”</i> along with Gilead.", |
| "And that exiled force of Israelites [shall possess] what belongs to the Phoenicians as far as Zarephath,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">i</sup><i class=\"footnote\">A town in southern Phoenicia; see 1 Kings 17.9.</i> while the Jerusalemite exile community of Sepharad<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">j</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Probably Asia Minor, called Saparda in Persian cuneiform inscriptions.</i> shall possess the towns of the Negeb.", |
| "For <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">k</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Several ancient versions read, “they [the exiles from Jerusalem named in the preceding verse] shall march up victorious.”</i>liberators shall march up<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-k</sup> on Mount Zion to wreak judgment on Mount Esau; and dominion shall be the L<small>ORD</small>’s." |
| ] |
| ], |
| "sectionNames": [ |
| "Chapter", |
| "Verse" |
| ] |
| } |
