Obadiah, in The Douay Old Testament (1609–1610)

The prophecy of Abdias (Obadiah) against Edom, which the edition notes is so brief that it is not parted into chapters. This is Obadiah as it stands in the second tome of the Douay Old Testament (Doway: Laurence Kellam, 1610), the English College of Douai’s Catholic translation from the Latin Vulgate, in its original spelling. The page gives the whole text with its marginal notes.

THE PROPHECIE OF ABDIAS.

ABDIAS borne in Sichem, of the tribe of Ephraim, prophecied the ſame time with Amos; ſo briefly that his prophecie is not parted into chapters: I. againſt the Idumeans; foreshewing their deſtruction; 10. for their perpetual emnitie against the lewes, and confederacie with the Chaldees. 17. The captiuitie and relaxation of the lewes. 19. And redemption of the whole world by Chriſt.

[Margin: S Epiph.]

Chapter 1

1 THE viſion of Abdias. Thus ſayth our Lord God to Edom: We haue heard a bruit from our Lord, and he [::] hath ſent a legate to the Gentils: Riſe ye, and let vs ariſe againſt him into battel.

2 Behold I haue geuen thee a litle one in the Gentils: thou art contēptible excedingly.

3 The pride of thy hart hath extolled thee, dwelling in the clefts of rockes, exalting thy throne: which ſayſt in thy hart: Who shal plucke me downe to the earth?

4 If thou shalt be exalted as an eagle, and if thou shalt ſet thy neſt among the ſtarres: thence wil I plucke thee downe, ſayth our Lord.

5 If theues had gone in to thee, if robbers by night, how hadſt thou held thy peace? would not they haue ſtolen thinges ſufficent for themſelues? if the grape gatherers had entered in to thee, would they not haue left thee at the leaſt a cluſter?

6 How haue they ſearched Eſau, haue they ſought out his hidden thinges?

7 Euen to the border haue they caſt thee out: al the men of thy league haue mocked thee: the men of thy peace haue preuailed againſt thee: they that eate with thee, shal lay embushments vnder thee: there is no wiſedom in him.

8 Why, shal not I in that day, ſayth our Lord, deſtroy the wiſe out of Idumea, and prudence from the mount of Eſau,

9 And thy valients of the South shal feare, that man may perish from the mount of Eſau.

10 For the ſlaughter, and for the iniquitie againſt thy brother Iacob, confuſion shal couer thee, and thou shalt perish for euer.

11 In the day when thou ſtoodeſt againſt him, when ſtrangers tooke his armie, and foreners entered his gates, and vpon Ieruſalem caſt lotte: thou alſo waſt as one of them.

12 And [::] thou shalt not dispiſe in the day of thy brother, in the day of his peregrination: and thou shalt not reioyce ouer the children of Iuda, in the day of their perdition: & thou shalt not magnifie thy mouth in the day of diſtreſſe.

13 Neither shalt thou enter the gate of my people in the day of their ruine: neither shalt thou alſo diſpiſe in his euils in the day of his deſtruction: and thou shalt not be ſent out againſt his armie in the day of his deſtruction.

14 Neither shalt thou ſtand in the outgoings to kil them that flee: and thou shalt not shut vp his remnant in the day of tribulation.

15 Becauſe the day of our Lord is at hand vpon al nations: as thou haſt done, ſo shal it be done to thee: thy retribution he wil returne vpon thine owne head.

16 For as you haue drunke vpon my holie mount, shal al Gentils drinke continually: & they shal drinke, and ſwallow vp, and they shal be as though they were not.

17 And in [::] mount Sion shal be ſaluation, and it shal be holie: and the houſe of Iacob shal poſſeſſe thoſe that had poſſeſſed them.

18 And the houſe of Iacob shal be a fyre, and the houſe of Ioſeph a flame, and the houſe of Eſau ſtubble: and they shal be kindled in them, and shal deuoure them: and there shal be no remaynes of the houſe of Eſau, becauſe our Lord hath ſpoken.

19 And [::] they that are toward the South, shal inherite the mount of Eſau, and they in the champaine countries, Philiſthiims: and they shal poſſeſſe the region of Ephraim, and the region of Samaria: and Beniamin shal poſſeſſe Galaad.

20 And the tranſmigration of this hoſt of the children of Iſrael, al places of the Chananeits euen to Sarepta: and the tranſmigration of Ieruſalem, that is in Boſphorus, shal poſſeſſe the cities of the South.

21 And ſauiours shal aſcend into mount Sion to iudge the mount of Eſau: and the kingdom shal be to our Lord.

Marginal notes to Chapter 1

• 1 Iere. 49.
• 1 [::] God directed the cogitations of diuers other Gentiles,
• 3 :: to ioyne their forces againſt the Idumeans.
• 8 Iſa. 29.
• 10 Gen. 2⟨illegible⟩.
• 12 [::] God admoniſheth them vvhat they ought not to do, but vvithal foreſhevveth that they vvil diſpiſe the levves heir bretheren: & vvil reioyce in their miſeries.
• 17 [::] Hiſtorically al this proſperitie vvas promiſed to the levves after their deliuerie from Babylon and ſo much therof performed as their nevv ſinnes hindered not, the reſt is fulfilled in Chriſtians. S Ierom. ep ad Dardam.
• 19 [::] The reſt of this prophecie is only of Chriſt poſſeſſingal nations. To vvhom al the prophetes geue testimonie that al receiue remiſſion of ſinnes by his name beleeuing in him. Act. 10. v. 43. see. S. Auguſtin li. 18. c 31. deciuit.
• 21 luc. 1. v. 3.

Colophon

The holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other editions in diuers languages. With arguments of the bookes, and chapters: annotations. tables: and other helpes. By the English College of Doway. The second tome (Psalms to 2 Machabees, with the Prayer of Manasses and the third and fourth books of Esdras), Doway: Laurence Kellam, 1610 (STC 2207). Copy: Henry E. Huntington Library, as reproduced in Early English Books Online (image set 2087).

Transcription: Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP), Phase I text A11777 (2007), released under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal public-domain dedication.

This is an archival transcription, not a Good Works Translation: the English is the Douay translators’ own, kept in the original spelling, with long s (ſ), u and v, i and j as printed. The Good Works Library converted the TCP text to this page, removing only markup, page breaks and line-end hyphens. In the print a cross (†) opens each verse and the verse number stands in the margin; here each verse is its own paragraph headed by that number. Marginal notes are gathered after each chapter under the number of the verse beside which they stand; where the print sets a reference mark in the text (a letter, four pricks ::, or a star *), the mark is kept at its place in square brackets. In prose sections the marginal notes stand at their places in square brackets. Marks that the transcription records in the text are kept as they stand: ▪ is the transcribers’ sign for a printed mark they could not set, which this edition’s key to its marks uses to point to an Annotation after the chapter, and “ is another such printed mark. Words the transcribers could not read are marked ⟨illegible⟩ (1 on this page); none has been filled in by conjecture.

The edition does not part this prophecy into chapters; the heading “Chapter 1” is the Library’s, for navigation.

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