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The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.
As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
And of the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,
And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
