| 1:1 |
The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GodGODconcerning concerning Edom;: We have heard atidings rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent among the heathennations, saying, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. |
| 1:2 |
Behold, I have made thee small among the heathennations: thou art greatly despised. |
| 1:3 |
The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? |
| 1:4 |
Though thou exaltmount thyselfon high as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest be set among the stars, thenceI will I bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord. |
| 1:5 |
If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, how art thou cut off! would they not havesteal stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? |
| 1:6 |
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden thingstreasures sought up! |
| 1:7 |
All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee on thy way, even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread havelay laid a woundsnare under thee: there is none understanding in him. |
| 1:8 |
Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? |
| 1:9 |
And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one ofmay be cut off from the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. |
| 1:10 |
For thythe violence againstdone to thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. |
| 1:11 |
In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forcessubstance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. |
| 1:12 |
But thoulook shouldest not havethou looked on the day of thy brother in the day thatof hehis becamedisaster, aand stranger;rejoice neithernot shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldestspeak thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. |
| 1:13 |
ThouEnter shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thoulook shouldest not havethou looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, norneither havelay laidye hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;. |
| 1:14 |
NeitherAnd shouldeststand thou havenot stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neitherand shouldestdeliver thounot have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. |
| 1:15 |
For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathennations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee:; thy rewarddealing shall return upon thine own head. |
| 1:16 |
For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathennations drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. |
| 1:17 |
But uponin mount Zion there shall be deliverancethose that escape, and thereit shall be holinessholy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. |
| 1:18 |
And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindleburn inamong them, and devour them;: and there shall not be any remaining ofto the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it. |
| 1:19 |
And they of the southSouth shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plainlowland the Philistines: and they shall possess the fieldsfield of Ephraim, and the fieldsfield of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. |
| 1:20 |
And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, shallwhich possessare thatamong of the Canaanites, shall possess even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the southSouth. |
| 1:21 |
And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LordsLordS. |