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Everything you treasure most
    will be taken from you.
Your allies can't be trusted.
They will force you out
    of your own country.
And your best friends
will trick and trap you,
    even before you know it.

Edom, when this happens,
I, the Lord, will destroy
    all your marvelous wisdom.

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But how Esau will be ransacked,
    his hidden treasures pillaged!
All your allies(A) will force you to the border;
    your friends will deceive and overpower you;
those who eat your bread(B) will set a trap for you,[a]
    but you will not detect it.

“In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “will I not destroy(C) the wise men of Edom,
    those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.