| 1:1 |
The vision of Obadi′ahObadiah Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard tidingsa report from the Lord and a messenger has been sent among the nations: Rise up letLet us rise against herit for battle |
| 1:2 |
Behold I will surely make you smallleast among the nations; you shall be utterly despised |
| 1:3 |
TheYour prideproud of your heart has deceived you you whothat live in the clefts of the rock whose dwelling is highin whothe heights You say in your heart Who will bring me down to the ground |
| 1:4 |
Though you soar aloft like the eagle though your nest is set among the stars thencefrom there I will bring you down says the Lord |
| 1:5 |
If thieves came to you if plunderers by night — how you have been destroyed— would they not steal only enoughwhat forthey themselveswanted If grape gatherers came to you would they not leave gleanings |
| 1:6 |
How Esau has been pillaged his treasures soughtsearched out |
| 1:7 |
All your allies have deceived you they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; those who ate your trustedbread friends have set a trap underfor you— there is no understanding of it |
| 1:8 |
WillOn I not on that day says the Lord I will destroy the wise men out of Edom and understanding out of Mount Esau |
| 1:9 |
AndYour yourwarriors mighty men shall be dismayedshattered O Teman so that everyeveryone man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter |
| 1:10 |
For the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob shame shall cover you and you shall be cut off for everforever |
| 1:11 |
On the day that you stood aloofaside on the day that strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem you too were like one of them |
| 1:12 |
But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother inon the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah inon the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted inon the day of distress |
| 1:13 |
You should not have entered the gate of my people inon the day of histheir calamity; you should not have gloatedjoined in the gloating over hisJudahs disaster inon the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods inon the day of his calamity |
| 1:14 |
You should not have stood at the partingcrossings of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have deliveredhanded upover his survivors inon the day of distress |
| 1:15 |
For the day of the Lord is near uponagainst all the nations As you have done it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head |
| 1:16 |
For as you have drunk uponon my holy mountain all the nations roundaround aboutyou shall drink; they shall drink and staggergulp down and shall be as though they had notnever been |
| 1:17 |
But inon Mount Zion there shall be those that escape and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possesstake theirpossession ownof possessionsthose who dispossessed them |
| 1:18 |
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 toof the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken |
| 1:19 |
Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau and those of the Shephe′lahShephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of E′phraimEphraim and the land of Samar′iaSamaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead |
| 1:20 |
The exiles inof Halahthe Israelites who are ofin theHalah people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zar′ephathZarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sephar′adSepharad shall possess the citiestowns of the Negeb |
| 1:21 |
SaviorsThose who have been saved shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lords |