Chasing God, Not Approval

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Someone Else's World

The Take Off: Launching Into God’s Purpose

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Building Better Devotions

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Thrones by Vance K. Jackson

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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Woe to the Complacent</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to you who are complacent in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="content">and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="content">you notable men of the foremost nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="content">to whom the people of Israel come!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Go to Kalneh and look at it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">go from there to great Hamath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">and then go down to Gath in Philistia.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">Are they better off than your two kingdoms?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">Is their land larger than yours?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You put off the day of disaster</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.6.3"><span class="content">and bring near a reign of terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You lie on beds adorned with ivory</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="content">and lounge on your couches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="content">You dine on choice lambs</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="content">and fattened calves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You strum away on your harps like David</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.6.5"><span class="content">and improvise on musical instruments.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You drink wine by the bowlful</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.6.6"><span class="content">and use the finest lotions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.6.6"><span class="content">but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.6.7"><span class="content">your feasting and lounging will end.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading"> Abhors the Pride of Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sworn by himself&#8212;the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty declares:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">&#8220;I abhor the pride of Jacob</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">and detest his fortresses;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">I will deliver up the city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">and everything in it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If ten people are left in one house, they too will die. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to make a funeral fire in honor of the dead</span></span></span><span class="content"> asks anyone who might be hiding there, &#8220;Is anyone else with you?&#8221; and he says, &#8220;No,&#8221; then he will go on to say, &#8220;Hush! We must not mention the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given the command,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.6.11"><span class="content">and he will smash the great house into pieces</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.6.11"><span class="content">and the small house into bits.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do horses run on the rocky crags?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="content">Does one plow the sea</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:12 </span><span class="ft">With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">plow there</span></span></span><span class="content"> with oxen?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="content">But you have turned justice into poison</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="content">and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">you who rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:13 </span><span class="fq">Lo Debar </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">nothing.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.6.13"><span class="content">and say, &#8220;Did we not take Karnaim</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:13 </span><span class="fq">Karnaim </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">horns</span><span class="ft">; </span><span class="fqa">horn </span><span class="ft">here symbolizes strength.</span></span></span><span class="content"> by our own strength?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty declares,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.6.14"><span class="content">&#8220;I will stir up a nation against you, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.6.14"><span class="content">that will oppress you all the way</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.6.14"><span class="content">from Lebo Hamath to the valley of the Arabah.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts after the king&#8217;s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> relented.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.7.3"><span class="content">&#8220;This will not happen,&#8221; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> showed me: The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then I cried out, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> relented.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.7.6"><span class="content">&#8220;This will not happen either,&#8221; the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> with a plumb line</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain; also in verse 8.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in his hand. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> asked me, &#8220;What do you see, Amos?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="content">&#8220;A plumb line,&#8221; I replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="content">Then the Lord said, &#8220;Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;The high places of Isaac will be destroyed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="content">and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="content">with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Amos and Amaziah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: &#8220;Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For this is what Amos is saying:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Jeroboam will die by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">and Israel will surely go into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">away from their native land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Amaziah said to Amos, &#8220;Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king&#8217;s sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Amos answered Amaziah, &#8220;I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> took me from tending the flock and said to me, &#8216;Go, prophesy to my people Israel.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now then, hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. You say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not prophesy against Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="content">and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Your wife will become a prostitute in the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">Your land will be measured and divided up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">and you yourself will die in a pagan</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">an unclean</span></span></span><span class="content"> country.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">And Israel will surely go into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">away from their native land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Basket of Ripe Fruit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> showed me: a basket of ripe fruit. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;What do you see, Amos?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.8.2"><span class="content">&#8220;A basket of ripe fruit,&#8221; I answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.8.2"><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;the temple singers will wail</span></span></span><span class="content"> Many, many bodies&#8212;flung everywhere! Silence!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Hear this, you who trample the needy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.8.4"><span class="content">and do away with the poor of the land,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">&#8220;When will the New Moon be over</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">that we may sell grain,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">and the Sabbath be ended</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">that we may market wheat?&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">skimping on the measure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">boosting the price</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">and cheating with dishonest scales,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">buying the poor with silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.8.6"><span class="content">and the needy for a pair of sandals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.8.6"><span class="content">selling even the sweepings with the wheat.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: &#8220;I will never forget anything they have done.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Will not the land tremble for this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">and all who live in it mourn?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">The whole land will rise like the Nile;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">it will be stirred up and then sink</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">like the river of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.8.9"><span class="content">&#8220;I will make the sun go down at noon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.8.9"><span class="content">and darken the earth in broad daylight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will turn your religious festivals into mourning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">and all your singing into weeping.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">I will make all of you wear sackcloth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">and shave your heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">I will make that time like mourning for an only son</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">and the end of it like a bitter day.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;The days are coming,&#8221; declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="content">&#8220;when I will send a famine through the land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="content">not a famine of food or a thirst for water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="content">but a famine of hearing the words of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">People will stagger from sea to sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="content">and wander from north to east,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="content">searching for the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="content">but they will not find it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.8.13"><span class="content">&#8220;the lovely young women and strong young men</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.8.13"><span class="content">will faint because of thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Those who swear by the sin of Samaria&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.8.14"><span class="content">who say, &#8216;As surely as your god lives, Dan,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.8.14"><span class="content">or, &#8216;As surely as the god</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:14 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">the way</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Beersheba lives&#8217;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.8.14"><span class="content">they will fall, never to rise again.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel to Be Destroyed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Strike the tops of the pillars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">so that the thresholds shake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">Bring them down on the heads of all the people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">those who are left I will kill with the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">Not one will get away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">none will escape.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Though they dig down to the depths below,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="content">from there my hand will take them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="content">Though they climb up to the heavens above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="content">from there I will bring them down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="content">there I will hunt them down and seize them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="content">Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="content">there I will command the serpent to bite them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="content">there I will command the sword to slay them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="content">&#8220;I will keep my eye on them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="content">for harm and not for good.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">he touches the earth and it melts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">and all who live in it mourn;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">the whole land rises like the Nile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">then sinks like the river of Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">he builds his lofty palace</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:6 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="content">and sets its foundation</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:6 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="content">he calls for the waters of the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="content">and pours them out over the face of the land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is his name.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are not you Israelites</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">the same to me as the Cushites</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, people from the upper Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">the Philistines from Caphtor</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, Crete</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">and the Arameans from Kir?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely the eyes of the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">are on the sinful kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">I will destroy it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">from the face of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">Yet I will not totally destroy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">the descendants of Jacob,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;For I will give the command,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">and I will shake the people of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">among all the nations</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">as grain is shaken in a sieve,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">and not a pebble will reach the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">All the sinners among my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="content">will die by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="content">all those who say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="content">&#8216;Disaster will not overtake or meet us.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Restoration</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">&#8220;I will restore David&#8217;s fallen shelter&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">I will repair its broken walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">and restore its ruins&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">and will rebuild it as it used to be,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">so that they may possess the remnant of Edom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.9.12"><span class="content">and all the nations that bear my name,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">so that the remnant of people / and all the nations that bear my name may seek me</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.9.12"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who will do these things.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;The days are coming,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">&#8220;when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">and the planter by the one treading grapes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">New wine will drip from the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">and flow from all the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and I will bring my people Israel back from exile.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will restore the fortunes of my people Israel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="content">&#8220;They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="content">They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="content">they will make gardens and eat their fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will plant Israel in their own land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.9.15"><span class="content">never again to be uprooted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.9.15"><span class="content">from the land I have given them,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.9.15"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Obadiah&#8217;s Vision</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The vision of Obadiah.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about Edom&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">We have heard a message from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">An envoy was sent to the nations to say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Rise, let us go against her for battle&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="OBA.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will make you small among the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="OBA.1.2"><span class="content">you will be utterly despised.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="OBA.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The pride of your heart has deceived you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">you who live in the clefts of the rocks</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of Sela</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">and make your home on the heights,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">you who say to yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">&#8216;Who can bring me down to the ground?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though you soar like the eagle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">and make your nest among the stars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">from there I will bring you down,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If thieves came to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">if robbers in the night&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">oh, what a disaster awaits you!&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">would they not steal only as much as they wanted?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">If grape pickers came to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">would they not leave a few grapes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But how Esau will be ransacked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"><span class="content">his hidden treasures pillaged!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All your allies will force you to the border;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">your friends will deceive and overpower you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">those who eat your bread will set a trap for you,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">but you will not detect it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="content">&#8220;will I not destroy the wise men of Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="content">those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Your warriors, Teman, will be terrified,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="content">and everyone in Esau&#8217;s mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="content">will be cut down in the slaughter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Because of the violence against your brother Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="content">you will be covered with shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="content">you will be destroyed forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">On the day you stood aloof</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">while strangers carried off his wealth</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">and foreigners entered his gates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">and cast lots for Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">you were like one of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You should not gloat over your brother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">in the day of his misfortune,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">nor rejoice over the people of Judah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">in the day of their destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">nor boast so much</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">in the day of their trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You should not march through the gates of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">nor gloat over them in their calamity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">nor seize their wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You should not wait at the crossroads</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">to cut down their fugitives,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">nor hand over their survivors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">in the day of their trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;The day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is near</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">for all nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">As you have done, it will be done to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">your deeds will return upon your own head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Just as you drank on my holy hill,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">so all the nations will drink continually;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">they will drink and drink</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">and be as if they had never been.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="content">it will be holy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="content">and Jacob will possess his inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jacob will be a fire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">and Joseph a flame;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">Esau will be stubble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">and they will set him on fire and destroy him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">There will be no survivors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">from Esau.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">People from the Negev will occupy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">the mountains of Esau,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">and people from the foothills will possess</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">the land of the Philistines.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">and Benjamin will possess Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">will possess the land as far as Zarephath;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">will possess the towns of the Negev.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="OBA.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Deliverers will go up on</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from</span></span></span><span class="content"> Mount Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="OBA.1.21"><span class="content">to govern the mountains of Esau.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="OBA.1.21"><span class="content">And the kingdom will be the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s.</span></span></div>
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