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Obadiah 6-8
New Catholic Bible
Obadiah 6-8
New Catholic Bible
6 But note how they will ransack Esau
and steal his hidden treasures.
7 All your former allies
will drive you to your borders.
Your confederates will overpower you,
those who eat your bread will set a trap for you,
but you will not realize it.[a]
8 On that day, says the Lord,
I will destroy all the wise men of Edom,
and wisdom will disappear from the mountains of Esau.
Footnotes
- Obadiah 1:7 The Edomites, a not very numerous people, supposedly descended from Esau (Gen 36), the grandson of Abraham, had settled to the southeast of the Dead Sea; their capital was the city of Petra. Entrenched in their precipitous terrain, they were able to remain safe while the armies of Nebuchadnezzar were on the loose. But their enemies would find them out and make a clean sweep of their land.
