Prophetia Abdiae, 1

1. Visio Abdiae. Haec dicit Dominus Deus ad Edom. Auditum audivimus a Domino, et legatus ad gentes missus est: “Surgite, et consurgamus adversus eum in proelium!”.

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2. “Ecce parvulum te dabo in gentibus, contemptibilis tu es valde.

2. Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.

3. Superbia cordis tui decepit te habitantem in scissuris petrae, exaltantem solium suum; qui dicit in corde suo: “Quis detrahet me in terram?”.

3. The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?"

4. Si exaltatus fueris ut aquila et si inter sidera posueris nidum tuum, inde detraham te”, dicit Dominus. 5 Si fures introissent ad te, si latrones per noctem, quomodo periisses! Nonne furati essent sufficientia sibi? Si vindemiatores introissent ad te, nonne racemos tantum reliquissent?

4. Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the LORD.

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5. If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night -- how you have been destroyed! -- would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?

6. Quomodo scrutati sunt Esau? Investigaverunt abscondita eius.

6. How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!

7. Usque ad terminum eiecerunt te, omnes viri foederis tui deceperunt te, invaluerunt adversum te viri pacis tuae; qui comedunt tecum, ponent insidias subter te. Non est prudentia in eo.

7. All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you -- there is no understanding of it.

8. “Numquid non in die illa, dicit Dominus, perdam sapientes de Edom et prudentiam de monte Esau?

8. Will I not on that day, says the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?

9. Et timebunt fortes tui Theman, ut intereat omnis vir de monte Esau. 10 Propter interfectionem et propter iniquitatem in fratrem tuum Iacob operiet te confusio, et peribis in aeternum.

9. And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

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10. For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.

11. In die cum stares ex adverso, quando capiebant alieni exercitum eius, et extranei ingrediebantur portas eius et super Ierusalem mittebant sortem, tu quoque eras quasi unus ex eis”.

11. On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.

12. Et non respicies diem fratris tui, diem calamitatis eius; et non laetaberis super filios Iudae in die perditionis eorum; et non magnificabis os tuum in die angustiae.

12. But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.

13. Neque ingredieris portam populi mei in die ruinae eorum; neque respicies et tu malum eius in die vastitatis illius et non mittes manum in opes eius in die vastitatis illius;

13. You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.

14. neque stabis in exitibus, ut interficias eos, qui fugerint, et non trades reliquos eius in die tribulationis.

14. You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.

15. Quoniam iuxta est dies Domini super omnes gentes: sicut fecisti, fiet tibi, retributio tua convertetur in caput tuum.

15. For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.

16. Quomodo enim bibistis super montem sanctum meum, bibent omnes gentes iugiter; et bibent et absorbebunt et erunt quasi non fuerint.

16. For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.

17. Et in monte Sion erit salvatio, et erit sanctum; et possidebit domus Iacob eos, qui se possederant.

17. But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.

18. Et erit domus Iacob ignis, et domus Ioseph flamma, et domus Esau stipula; et succendentur in eis, et devorabunt eos, et non erunt reliquiae domus Esau, quia Dominus locutus est.

18. The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken.

19. Et hereditabunt austrum, montem Esau, et Sephelam Philisthim; et possidebunt regionem Ephraim et regionem Samariae, et Beniamin possidebit Galaad;

19. Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephe'lah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of E'phraim and the land of Sama'ria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

20. et transmigratio prima filiorum Israel possidebit terram Chananaeorum usque ad Sareptam; et transmigratio Ierusalem, quae in Sapharad est, possidebit civitates austri.

20. The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zar'ephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sephar'ad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.

21. Et ascendent salvatores in montem Sion iudicare montem Esau, et erit Domino regnum.

21. Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.