{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_8336/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_8336","id":"gutenberg_8336","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8336","summary":null,"tags":["Bible. Obadiah","Category: History - Religious","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF ABDIAS\n\nABDIAS, whose name is interpreted THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, is believed\nto have prophesied about the same time as OSEE, JOEL, and AMOS: though\nsome of the Hebrews, who believe him to be the same with ACHAB's\nsteward, make him much more ancient. His prophecy is the shortest of any\nin number of words, but yields to none, says ST. JEROME, in the\nsublimity of mysteries. It contains but one chapter.\n\n\nAbdias Chapter 1\n\nThe destruction of Edom for their pride: and the wrongs they did to\nJacob: the salvation and victory of Israel.\n\n1:1. The vision of Abdias. Thus saith the Lord God to Edom: We have\nheard a rumour from the Lord, and he hath sent an ambassador to the\nnations: Arise, and let us rise up to battle against him.\n\n1:2. Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art exceeding\ncontemptible.\n\n1:3. The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in the\nclefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest in\nthy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground?\n\n1:4. Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nest\namong the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.\n\n1:5. If thieves had gone in to thee, if robbers by night, how wouldst\nthou have held thy peace? would they not have stolen till they had\nenough? if the grapegatherers had come in to thee, would they not have\nleft thee at the least a cluster?\n\n1:6. How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out his hidden\nthings?\n\n1:7. They have sent thee out even to the border: all the men of thy\nconfederacy have deceived thee: the men of thy peace have prevailed\nagainst thee: they that eat with thee shall lay snares under thee: there\nis no wisdom in him.\n\n1:8. Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, destroy the wise out of\nEdom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?\n\n1:9. And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be\ncut off from the mount of Esau.\n\n1:10. For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother Jacob,\nconfusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever.\n\n1:11. In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried\naway his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast\nlots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.\n\n1:12. But thou shalt not look on in the day of thy brother, in the day\nof his leaving his country: and thou shalt not rejoice over the children\nof Juda, in the day of their destruction: and thou shalt not magnify thy\nmouth in the day of distress.\n\nThou shalt not look, etc... or, thou shouldst not, etc. It is a\nreprehension for what they had done, and at the same time a declaration\nthat these things should not pass unpunished.-Ibid. Thou shalt not\nmagnify thy mouth... That is, thou shalt not speak arrogantly against\nthe children of Juda as insulting them in their distress.\n\n1:13. Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of my people in the day of\ntheir ruin: neither shalt thou also look on in his evils in the day of\nhis calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against his army in the day\nof his desolation.\n\n1:14. Neither shalt thou stand in the crossways to kill them that flee:\nand thou shalt not shut up them that remain of him in the day of\ntribulation.\n\n1:15. For the day of the Lord is at hand upon all nations: as thou hast\ndone, so shall it be done to thee: he will turn thy reward upon thy own\nhead.\n\n1:16. For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so all nations shall\ndrink continually: and they shall drink, and sup up, and they shall be\nas though they were not.\n\n1:17. And in mount Sion shall be salvation, and it shall be holy, and\nthe house of Jacob shall possess those that possessed them.\n\n1:18. And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a\nflame, and the house of Esau stubble: and they shall be kindled in them,\nand shall devour them: and there shall be no remains of the house of\nEsau, for the Lord hath spoken it.\n\n1:19. And they that are toward the south, shall inherit the mount of\nEsau, and they that are in the plains, the Philistines: and they shall\npossess the country of Ephraim, and the country of Samaria: and Benjamin\nshall possess Galaad.\n\n1:20. And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, all the\nplaces of the Chanaanites even to Sarepta: and the captivity of\nJerusalem that is in Bosphorus, shall possess the cities of the south.\n\n1:21. And saviours shall come up into mount Sion to judge the mount of\nEsau: and the kingdom shall be for the Lord.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 36: Abdias: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":939}