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Obadiah 1:5 - 1:9

5
“If thieves came to you,
If robbers by night—
Oh how you will be ruined!—
Would they not thieve only until they had enough?
If grape gatherers came to you,
Would they not allow some gleanings to remain?
6
Oh how Esau will be searched out
And his hidden treasures ransacked!
7
All the men who have a covenant with you
Will send you forth to the border,
And the men at peace with you
Will deceive you and overpower you.
They who eat your bread
Will set an ambush for you.
(There is no discernment in him.)
8
Will I not on that day,” declares Yahweh,
“Cause the wise men to perish from Edom
And discernment from the mountain of Esau?
9
Then your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman,
So that each one may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.