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Chapter 1
This is the vision that was
showed unto Abdy: Thus hath the Lord God spoken upon Edom: We have
heard of the Lord that there is an assemblage sent among the
Heathen: Up, let us arise, and fight against them. Behold I will
make thee small among the Heathen, so that thou shall be utterly
despised. The pride of thy heart hath lift thee up, thou that
dwellest in the strongholds of stone, and hast made thee an high
seat: Thou sayest in thine heart: who shall cast me down to the
ground? But though thou wentest up as high as an Eagle, and madest
thy nest above among the stars: yet would I pluck thee down from
thence. If the thieves and robbers came to thee by night, thou
taking thy rest: should they not steal, till they had enough? If the
grape gatherers came upon thee, would they not leave thee some
grapes? But how shall they rip Esau, and seek out his treasures?
Yee the men that were sworn unto thee, shall drive thee out of
the borders of thine own land. They that now be at one with thee,
shall deceive thee, and overcome thee: Even they that eat thy bread,
shall betray thee, or ever thou perceive it. Shall not I at the same
time destroy the wise men of Edom, and those that have
understanding, from the mount of Esau? Thy giants ( O Theman ) shall
be afraid, for through the slaughter they shall be all over thrown
upon the mount of Esau. Shame shall come upon thee, for the malice
that thou showed to thy brother Jacob: yee for ever more shalt thou
perish, and that because of the time, when thou didest set thy self
against him, even when the enemies carried away his host, and when
the *aleauntes came in at his ports, and cast lots upon Jerusalem,
and thou thyself was one of them.
Thou shalt no more see the day of thy brother, thou shalt no
more behold the time of his captivity: thou shalt no more rejoice
over the children of Juda, in the day of their destruction, thou
shall triumph no more in the time of their trouble. Thou shalt no
more come in at the gates of my people, in the time of their decay:
thou shalt not see their misery in the day of their fall.
Thou shalt send no man against their host, in the day of their
adversary: neither shalt thou stand waiting any more at the corners
of the streets, to murder such as are fled, or to take them
prisoners, that remain in the day of their trouble. For the day of
the Lord is hard upon all the Heathen. Like as thou hast done, so
shalt thou be dealt withal, yee thou shalt be rewarded even upon thy
head. For like wise as ye have drunken upon mine holy hill, so shall
all the Heathen drink continually: yee drink shall they, and swallow
up, so that ye shall be, as though ye had never been.
But upon the mount Sion, there shall a remnant escape: these
shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess even those, that
had afore in possession. Moreover, the house of Jacob shall be a
fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau the straw:
which they shall kindle and consume, so that nothing shall be left
of the house of Esau, for the Lord himself has said it. They of the
South shall have the mount of Esau in possession: and look what
layeth upon the ground, that shall the Philistines have: the plain
fields shall Ephraim and Samaria possess: and the mountains of
Galaad shall Benjamin have. And this host shall be the children of
Israels prisoners: Now what so layeth from Canaan unto Zareptah, and
in Sepharad, that shall be under the subjection of Jerusalem: and
the cities of the south shall inherit it. Thus they that escape upon
the hill of Sion, shall go up to punish the mount of Esau, and the
kingdom shall be the Lords.
*aleauntes=aliens ; from the roots of alienus/alius..Hebrew root
"man" mortal man, incurable wickedness.
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