Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're
taking this journey together to read the Bible
in a year. Today's reading is Psalm 137, as well
as the entire one -chapter book of Obadiah. Psalm
137 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down,
yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hung
our harps upon the willows in the midst of it.
For there those who carried us away captive asked
of us a song, and those who plundered us requested
mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign
land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right
hand forget its skill. If I do not remember you,
let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth.
If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom, the
day of Jerusalem, who said, Raise it, raise it,
to its very foundation. O daughter of Babylon,
who are to be destroyed, happy the one who repays
you as you have served us. Happy the one who
takes and dashes your little ones against the
rock. The Book of Obadiah The Vision of Obadiah
Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom. We have
heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger
has been sent among the nations, saying, Arise,
and let us rise up against her for battle. Behold,
I will make you small against the nations. You
shall be greatly despised. The pride of your
heart has deceived you. You who dwell in the
clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high,
you who say in your heart, Who will bring me
down to the ground? Though you ascend as high
as the eagle, and though you set your nest among
the stars, from there I will bring you down,
says the Lord. If thieves had come to you, if
robbers by night, O how you will be cut off!
Would they not have stolen till they had enough?
If grave -gatherers had come to you, would they
not have left some gleanings? O how Esau shall
be searched out! How his hidden treasures shall
be sought after! all the men in your confederacy
shall force you to the border the men at peace
with you shall deceive you and prevail against
you those who eat your bread shall lay a trap
for you no one is aware of it will i not in that
day says the lord even destroy the wise men from
edom an understanding from the mountains of esau
Then your mighty men, haughty men, shall be dismayed,
to the end that everyone from the mountains of
Esau may be cut off by slaughter. For violence
against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover
you, and you shall be cut off forever. In the
day that you stood on the other side, in the
day that strangers carried captive his forces,
when foreigners entered his gates and cast lots
for Jerusalem, even you were as one of them.
But you should not have gazed on the day of your
brother in the day of his captivity, nor should
you have rejoiced over the children of Judah
in the day of their destruction, nor should you
have spoken proudly in the day of distress. You
should not have entered the gate of my people
in the day of their calamity. Indeed, you should
not have gazed on their affliction in the day
of their calamity, nor laid hands on their substance
in the day of their calamity. You should not
have stood at the crossroads to cut off those
among them who escaped, nor should you have delivered
up those among them who remained in the day of
distress. For the day of the Lord upon all the
nations is near. As you have done, it shall be
done to you. Your reprisal shall return upon
your own head. For as you drank on my holy mountain,
so shall all the nations drink continually. Yes,
they shall drink and swallow, and they shall
be as though they had never been. But on Mount
Zion there shall be deliverance, and there shall
be holiness. The house of Jacob shall possess
their possessions. The house of Jacob shall be
a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame. But
the house of Esau shall be stubble. They shall
kindle them and devour them. and no survivor
shall remain of the house of Esau, for the Lord
has spoken. The south shall possess the mountains
of Esau, and the low land shall possess Philistia.
They shall possess the fields of Ephraim and
the fields of Samaria. Benjamin shall possess
Gilead, and the captives of his host of the children
of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites,
as far as Zarephath. The captives of Jerusalem,
who are in Sepharad, shall possess the cities
of the south, Then saviors shall come to Mount
Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the
kingdom shall be the Lord's. I hope you enjoyed
today's reading as much as I did, and I look
forward to seeing you again tomorrow to continue
on our journey. God bless you and have a great
day.