| 1:1 |
The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord God has said about Edom: We have heard a message from the Lord; aan messengerenvoy has been sent among the nations: “Rise up, and let’s us go to war against her.” |
| 1:3 |
Your presumptuousarrogant heart has deceived you, you who live in clefts of the rock in your home on the heights, who say to yourself, “Who can bring me down to the ground?” |
| 1:5 |
If thieves came to you, if marauders by night — how ravaged you would be!—! — wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted? If grape pickersharvesters came to you, wouldn’t they leave somea few grapes? |
| 1:8 |
In that day — this is the Lord’s declaration — will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom and those who understand from the hill country of Esau? |
| 1:11 |
On the day you stood aloof, on the day strangers captured his wealth, while foreigners entered his city gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them. |
| 1:13 |
Do not enter themy gatepeople’s ofcity Mygate people in the day of their disaster. Yes, you — do not gloat over their misery in the day of their disaster, and do not appropriate their possessions in the day of their disaster. |
| 1:15 |
For the Dayday of the Lord is near, against all the nations. As you have done, so it will be done to you; what you deserve will return on your own head. |
| 1:16 |
As you have drunk on Mymy holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp down and be as though they had never been. |
| 1:21 |
Saviors will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the hill country of Esau, butand the kingdom will be the Lord’s. |