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Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're

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taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year. Today's reading is Psalm 137, as well

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as the entire one -chapter book of Obadiah. Psalm

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137 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down,

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yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hung

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our harps upon the willows in the midst of it.

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For there those who carried us away captive asked

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of us a song, and those who plundered us requested

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mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

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How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign

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land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right

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hand forget its skill. If I do not remember you,

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let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth.

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If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

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Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom, the

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day of Jerusalem, who said, Raise it, raise it,

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to its very foundation. O daughter of Babylon,

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who are to be destroyed, happy the one who repays

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you as you have served us. Happy the one who

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takes and dashes your little ones against the

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rock. The Book of Obadiah The Vision of Obadiah

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Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom. We have

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heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger

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has been sent among the nations, saying, Arise,

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and let us rise up against her for battle. Behold,

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I will make you small against the nations. You

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shall be greatly despised. The pride of your

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heart has deceived you. You who dwell in the

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clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high,

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you who say in your heart, Who will bring me

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down to the ground? Though you ascend as high

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as the eagle, and though you set your nest among

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the stars, from there I will bring you down,

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says the Lord. If thieves had come to you, if

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robbers by night, O how you will be cut off!

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Would they not have stolen till they had enough?

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If grave -gatherers had come to you, would they

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not have left some gleanings? O how Esau shall

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be searched out! How his hidden treasures shall

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be sought after! all the men in your confederacy

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shall force you to the border the men at peace

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with you shall deceive you and prevail against

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you those who eat your bread shall lay a trap

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for you no one is aware of it will i not in that

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day says the lord even destroy the wise men from

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edom an understanding from the mountains of esau

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Then your mighty men, haughty men, shall be dismayed,

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to the end that everyone from the mountains of

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Esau may be cut off by slaughter. For violence

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against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover

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you, and you shall be cut off forever. In the

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day that you stood on the other side, in the

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day that strangers carried captive his forces,

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when foreigners entered his gates and cast lots

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for Jerusalem, even you were as one of them.

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But you should not have gazed on the day of your

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brother in the day of his captivity, nor should

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you have rejoiced over the children of Judah

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in the day of their destruction, nor should you

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have spoken proudly in the day of distress. You

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should not have entered the gate of my people

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in the day of their calamity. Indeed, you should

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not have gazed on their affliction in the day

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of their calamity, nor laid hands on their substance

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in the day of their calamity. You should not

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have stood at the crossroads to cut off those

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among them who escaped, nor should you have delivered

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up those among them who remained in the day of

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distress. For the day of the Lord upon all the

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nations is near. As you have done, it shall be

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done to you. Your reprisal shall return upon

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your own head. For as you drank on my holy mountain,

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so shall all the nations drink continually. Yes,

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they shall drink and swallow, and they shall

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be as though they had never been. But on Mount

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Zion there shall be deliverance, and there shall

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be holiness. The house of Jacob shall possess

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their possessions. The house of Jacob shall be

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a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame. But

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the house of Esau shall be stubble. They shall

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kindle them and devour them. and no survivor

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shall remain of the house of Esau, for the Lord

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has spoken. The south shall possess the mountains

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of Esau, and the low land shall possess Philistia.

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They shall possess the fields of Ephraim and

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the fields of Samaria. Benjamin shall possess

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Gilead, and the captives of his host of the children

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of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites,

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as far as Zarephath. The captives of Jerusalem,

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who are in Sepharad, shall possess the cities

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of the south, Then saviors shall come to Mount

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Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the

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kingdom shall be the Lord's. I hope you enjoyed

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today's reading as much as I did, and I look

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forward to seeing you again tomorrow to continue

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on our journey. God bless you and have a great

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day.