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:
    “Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!”
    Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
        you shall be utterly despised.
    The pride of your heart has deceived you,
        you who live in the clefts of the rock,
        in your lofty dwelling,
    who say in your heart,
        “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
    Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
        though your nest is set among the stars,
        from there I will bring you down,
                                            declares the LORD.
    
    
    If thieves came to you,
        if plunderers came 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?
    How Esau has been pillaged,
        his treasures sought out!
    All your allies have driven you to your border;
        those at peace with you have deceived you;
    they have prevailed against you;
        those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you—
        you have no understanding.
    
    
    Will I not on that day, declares the LORD,
        destroy the wise men out of Edom,
        and understanding out of Mount Esau?
    And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman,
        so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
    
    
        Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
        shame shall cover you,
        and you shall be cut off forever.
    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.
    But do not gloat over the day of your brother
        in the day of his misfortune;
    do not rejoice over the people of Judah
        in the day of their ruin;
    do not boast
        in the day of distress.
    Do not enter the gate of my people
        in the day of their calamity;
    do not gloat over his disaster
        in the day of his calamity;
    do not loot his wealth
        in the day of his calamity.
    Do not stand at the crossroads
        to cut off his fugitives;
    do not hand over his survivors
        in the day of distress.
    
    
        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.
    For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
        so all the nations shall drink continually;
    they shall drink and swallow,
        and shall be as though they had never been.
    But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,
        and it shall be holy,
    and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
    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 for the house of Esau,
                                            for the LORD has spoken.
    
    
        Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau,
        and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines;
    they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria,
        and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
    The exiles of this host of the people of Israel
        shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,
    and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
        shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
    Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion
        to rule Mount Esau,
        and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s. (ESV)

Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.

  And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

  So, setting sail from Troas, we made a direct voyage to Samothrace, and the following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city some days. And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together. One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul. And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.

  As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.” And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.

  But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men are Jews, and they are disturbing our city. They advocate customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to accept or practice.” The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders to beat them with rods. And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely. Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. (ESV)