The Book of
Obadiah
1
1 The
vision of Obadiah.
This is what
the Lord
GOD
says about Edom.
We have heard
news from the
LORD, and an
ambassador is sent
among the nations,
saying, “Arise, and
let’s rise up
against her in
battle.
2 Behold,
I have made
you small among
the nations. You
are greatly despised.
3 The
pride of your
heart has deceived
you, you who
dwell in the
clefts of the
rock, whose
habitation is high,
who says in his
heart, ‘Who will
bring me down
to the ground?’
4 Though you
mount on high
as the eagle,
and though your
nest is set
among the stars,
I will bring
you down from
there,” says the
LORD.
5 “If
thieves came to
you, if robbers by
night—oh, what disaster awaits
you—wouldn’t they only
steal until they
had enough? If grape pickers came
to you, wouldn’t
they leave some
gleaning grapes?
6 How Esau will
be ransacked! How his
hidden treasures are sought
out!
7 All
the men of
your alliance have
brought you on
your way, even
to the border.
The men who
were at peace
with you have
deceived you, and
prevailed against
you. Friends who
eat your bread
lay a snare under
you. There is
no understanding
in him.”
8 “Won’t I
in that day”,
says the LORD,
“destroy the wise
men out of Edom,
and understanding
out of the
mountain of Esau?
9 Your
mighty men, Teman,
will be dismayed,
to the end
that everyone may
be cut off
from the mountain
of Esau by
slaughter.
10 For
the violence done
to your brother
Jacob, shame will
cover you, and
you will be
cut off forever.
11 In
the day that
you stood on
the other side,
in the day
that strangers
carried away his
substance and
foreigners entered
into his gates
and cast lots
for Jerusalem,
even you were
like one of
them.
12 But don’t
look down on
your brother in
the day of
his disaster,
and don’t rejoice over
the children of
Judah in the
day of
their destruction. Don’t speak
proudly in the
day of distress.
13 Don’t enter
into the gate
of my people
in the day
of their calamity.
Don’t look down on
their affliction
in the day
of their calamity,
neither seize their
wealth on the
day of their
calamity.
14 Don’t stand
in the crossroads
to cut off
those of his
who escape. Don’t
deliver up those
of his who
remain in the
day of distress.
15 For
the day of
the LORD is
near all the
nations! As you
have done, it
will be done
to you. Your
deeds will return
upon your own head.
16 For
as you have
drunk on my
holy mountain, so
all the nations
will drink
continually. Yes,
they will drink,
swallow down, and
will be as
though they had
not been.
17 But
in Mount Zion,
there will be
those who escape,
and it will
be holy. The
house of Jacob
will possess their
possessions.
18 The
house of Jacob
will be a
fire, the house
of Joseph a
flame, and the
house of Esau
for stubble. They
will burn among
them and devour
them. There will
not be any
remaining to the
house of Esau.”
Indeed, the LORD
has spoken.
19 Those of
the South will
possess the
mountain of Esau,
and those of the
lowland, the
Philistines. They
will possess the
field of Ephraim,
and the field
of Samaria.
Benjamin will
possess Gilead.
20 The
captives of this
army of the
children of Israel,
who are among
the Canaanites,
will possess even
to Zarephath; and
the captives of
Jerusalem, who are
in Sepharad, will
possess the cities
of the Negev.
21 Saviors
will go up
on Mount Zion
to judge the
mountains of Esau,
and the kingdom
will be the
LORD’s.