Amos 8:11 - Obadiah 21

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¹¹ “The days are coming,”^(A) declares the Sovereign Lord,
    “when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
    but a famine^(B) of hearing the words of the Lord.^(C)
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
    and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
    but they will not find it.^(D)

“the lovely young women and strong young men^(E)
    will faint because of thirst.^(F)
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria^(G)—
    who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’^(H)
    or, ‘As surely as the god^[a] of Beersheba^(I) lives’—
    they will fall,^(J) never to rise again.^(K)”

“Strike the tops of the pillars
    so that the thresholds shake.
Bring them down on the heads^(L) of all the people;
    those who are left I will kill with the sword.
Not one will get away,
    none will escape.^(M)
2 Though they dig down to the depths below,^(N)
    from there my hand will take them.
Though they climb up to the heavens above,^(O)
    from there I will bring them down.^(P)
3 Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,^(Q)
    there I will hunt them down and seize them.^(R)
Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea,^(S)
    there I will command the serpent^(T) to bite them.^(U)
4 Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,
    there I will command the sword^(V) to slay them.

“I will keep my eye on them
    for harm^(W) and not for good.^(X)”^(Y)

⁵ The Lord, the Lord Almighty—
he touches the earth and it melts,^(Z)
    and all who live in it mourn;
the whole land rises like the Nile,
    then sinks like the river of Egypt;^(AA)
6 he builds his lofty palace^[b](AB) in the heavens
    and sets its foundation^[c] on the earth;
he calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out over the face of the land—
    the Lord is his name.^(AC)

⁷ “Are not you Israelites
    the same to me as the Cushites^[d]?”^(AD)
declares the Lord.
“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,
    the Philistines^(AE) from Caphtor^[e](AF)
    and the Arameans from Kir?^(AG)

⁸ “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord
    are on the sinful kingdom.
I will destroy^(AH) it
    from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not totally destroy
    the descendants of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.^(AI)
9 “For I will give the command,
    and I will shake the people of Israel
    among all the nations
as grain^(AJ) is shaken in a sieve,^(AK)
    and not a pebble will reach the ground.^(AL)
10 All the sinners among my people
    will die by the sword,^(AM)
all those who say,
    ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’^(AN)

“I will restore David’s^(AO) fallen shelter^(AP)—
    I will repair its broken walls
    and restore its ruins^(AQ)—
    and will rebuild it as it used to be,^(AR)
12 so that they may possess the remnant of Edom^(AS)
    and all the nations that bear my name,^[f](AT)”
declares the Lord, who will do these things.^(AU)

“when the reaper^(AW) will be overtaken by the plowman^(AX)
    and the planter by the one treading^(AY) grapes.
New wine^(AZ) will drip from the mountains
    and flow from all the hills,^(BA)
14     and I will bring^(BB) my people Israel back from exile.^[g](BC)

“They will rebuild the ruined cities^(BD) and live in them.
    They will plant vineyards^(BE) and drink their wine;
    they will make gardens and eat their fruit.^(BF)
15 I will plant^(BG) Israel in their own land,^(BH)
    never again to be uprooted^(BI)
    from the land I have given them,”^(BJ)

says the Lord your God.^(BK)

We have heard a message from the Lord:
    An envoy^(BP) was sent to the nations to say,
“Rise, let us go against her for battle”^(BQ)—

² “See, I will make you small^(BR) among the nations;
    you will be utterly despised.
³ The pride^(BS) of your heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rocks^[h](BT)
    and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
    ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’^(BU)
4 Though you soar like the eagle
    and make your nest^(BV) among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,”^(BW)
declares the Lord.^(BX)
5 “If thieves came to you,
    if robbers in the night—
oh, what a disaster awaits you!—
    would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
    would they not leave a few grapes?^(BY)
6 But how Esau will be ransacked,
    his hidden treasures pillaged!
⁷ All your allies^(BZ) will force you to the border;
    your friends will deceive and overpower you;
those who eat your bread^(CA) will set a trap for you,^[i]
    but you will not detect it.

⁸ “In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “will I not destroy^(CB) the wise men of Edom,
    those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
⁹ Your warriors, Teman,^(CC) will be terrified,
    and everyone in Esau’s mountains
    will be cut down in the slaughter.
¹⁰ Because of the violence^(CD) against your brother Jacob,^(CE)
    you will be covered with shame;
    you will be destroyed forever.^(CF)
11 On the day you stood aloof
    while strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
    and cast lots^(CG) for Jerusalem,
    you were like one of them.^(CH)
12 You should not gloat^(CI) over your brother
    in the day of his misfortune,^(CJ)
nor rejoice^(CK) over the people of Judah
    in the day of their destruction,^(CL)
nor boast^(CM) so much
    in the day of their trouble.^(CN)
13 You should not march through the gates of my people
    in the day of their disaster,
nor gloat over them in their calamity^(CO)
    in the day of their disaster,
nor seize their wealth
    in the day of their disaster.
¹⁴ You should not wait at the crossroads
    to cut down their fugitives,^(CP)
nor hand over their survivors
    in the day of their trouble.

¹⁵ “The day of the Lord is near^(CQ)
    for all nations.
As you have done, it will be done to you;
    your deeds^(CR) will return upon your own head.
¹⁶ Just as you drank^(CS) on my holy hill,^(CT)
    so all the nations will drink^(CU) continually;
they will drink and drink
    and be as if they had never been.^(CV)
17 But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;^(CW)
    it will be holy,^(CX)
    and Jacob will possess his inheritance.^(CY)
18 Jacob will be a fire
    and Joseph a flame;
Esau will be stubble,
    and they will set him on fire^(CZ) and destroy^(DA) him.
There will be no survivors^(DB)
    from Esau.”
The Lord has spoken.

¹⁹ People from the Negev will occupy
    the mountains of Esau,
and people from the foothills will possess
    the land of the Philistines.^(DC)
They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,^(DD)
    and Benjamin^(DE) will possess Gilead.
²⁰ This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan
    will possess the land as far as Zarephath;^(DF)
the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
    will possess the towns of the Negev.^(DG)
21 Deliverers^(DH) will go up on^[j] Mount Zion
    to govern the mountains of Esau.
    And the kingdom will be the Lord’s.^(DI)