OBA 1:1
The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God
concerning Edom - - We have heard a report from the
Lord, And an envoy has been sent among the nations
saying, "Arise and let us go against her for battle"
- -
OBA 1:2 "Behold, I will make you small among
the nations; You are greatly despised.
OBA 1:3 "The arrogance of your heart has
deceived you, You who live in the clefts of the
rock, In the loftiness of your dwelling place, Who
say in your heart, 'Who will bring me down to
earth?'
OBA 1:4 "Though you build high like the
eagle, Though you set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down," declares the
Lord.
OBA 1:5 "If thieves came to you, If robbers
by night - - O how you will be ruined! - - Would
they not steal only until they had enough? If grape
gatherers came to you, Would they not leave some
gleanings?
OBA 1:6 "O how Esau will be ransacked, And
his hidden treasures searched out!
OBA 1:7 "All the men allied with you Will
send you forth to the border, And the men at peace
with you Will deceive you and overpower you. They
who eat your bread Will set an ambush for you.
(There is no understanding in him.)
OBA 1:8 "Will I not on that day," declares
the Lord, "Destroy wise men from Edom And
understanding from the mountain of Esau?
OBA 1:9 "Then your mighty men will be
dismayed, O Teman, In order that everyone may be cut
off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
OBA 1:10 "Because of violence to your brother
Jacob, You will be covered with shame, And you will
be cut off forever.
OBA 1:11 "On the day that you stood aloof, On
the day that strangers carried off his wealth, And
foreigners entered his gate And cast lots for
Jerusalem - - You too were as one of them.
OBA 1:12 "Do not gloat over your brother's
day, The day of his misfortune. And do not rejoice
over the sons of Judah In the day of their
destruction; Yes, do not boast In the day of their
distress.
OBA 1:13 "Do not enter the gate of My people
In the day of their disaster. Yes, you, do not gloat
over their calamity In the day of their disaster.
And do not loot their wealth In the day of their
disaster.
OBA 1:14 "And do not stand at the fork of the
road To cut down their fugitives; And do not
imprison their survivors In the day of their
distress.
OBA 1:15 "For the day of the Lord draws near
on all the nations. As you have done, it will be
done to you. Your dealings will return on your own
head.
OBA 1:16 "Because just as you drank on My
holy mountain, All the nations will drink
continually. They will drink and swallow, And become
as if they had never existed.
OBA 1:17 "But on Mount Zion there will be
those who escape, And it will be holy. And the house
of Jacob will possess their possessions.
OBA 1:18 "Then the house of Jacob will be a
fire And the house of Joseph a flame; But the house
of Esau will be as stubble. And they will set them
on fire and consume them, So that there will be no
survivor of the house of Esau," For the Lord has
spoken.
OBA 1:19 Then those of the Negev will possess
the mountain of Esau, And those of the Shephelah the
Philistine plain; Also, they will possess the
territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria,
And Benjamin will possess Gilead.
OBA 1:20 And the exiles of this host of the
sons of Israel, Who are among the Canaanites as far
as Zarephath, And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in
Sepharad Will possess the cities of the Negev.
OBA 1:21 The deliverers will ascend Mount
Zion To judge the mountain of Esau, And the kingdom
will be the Lord's.
