Obadiah

The vision of Obadiah.

EDOM’S CERTAIN JUDGMENT

This is what the Lord God has said about Edom:^a

We have heard a message from the Lord;^b

an envoy has been sent^c among the nations:

“Rise up,^d and let’s go to war against her.”^A

²Look, I will make you insignificant^e

among the nations;

you will be deeply despised.

³Your arrogant heart has deceived you,^f

you who live in clefts of the rock^BCg

in your home on the heights,

who say to yourself,

“Who can bring me down to the ground?”^h

⁴Though you seem to soar^D like an eagle^F

and make your nest among the stars,^j

even from there I will bring you down.

This is the Lord’s declaration.

⁵If thieves came to you,^k

if marauders by night—

how ravaged you would be!—

wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?

If grape harvesters came to you,

wouldn’t they leave a few grapes?^l

⁶How Esau will be pillaged,^m

his hidden treasures searched out!ⁿ

⁷Everyone who has a treaty with you^o

will drive you to the border;

everyone at peace with you

will deceive and conquer you.

Those who eat your bread^p

will set^E a trap for you.

He will be unaware of it.^q

⁸In that day—

this is the Lord’s declaration—

will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom^r

and those who understand

from the hill country of Esau?

⁹Teman,^Fs your warriors^t will be terrified

so that everyone from the hill country of Esau

will be destroyed by slaughter.^u

EDOM’S SINS AGAINST JUDAH

¹⁰You will be covered with shame

and destroyed forever

because of violence done to your brother Jacob.^v

¹¹On the day you stood aloof,^w

on the day strangers captured his wealth,^G

while foreigners entered his city gate

and cast lots for Jerusalem,^x

you were just like one of them.^y

¹²Do not gloat over your brother^z

in the day of his calamity;

do not rejoice over the people of Judah^aa

in the day of their destruction;

do not boastfully mock^Bab

in the day of distress.^ac

¹³Do not enter my people’s city gate

in the day of their disaster.^ad

Yes, you—do not gloat over their misery

in the day of their disaster,

and do not appropriate their possessions^ae

in the day of their disaster.

¹⁴Do not stand at the crossroads^Caf

to cut off their fugitives,

and do not hand over their survivors

in the day of distress.

JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS

¹⁵For the day of the Lord^ag is near,

against all the nations.^ah

As you have done,^ai it will be done to you;

what you deserve will return on your own head.^aj

¹⁶As you have drunk on my holy mountain,^ak

so all the nations will drink continually.^a

They will drink and gulp down

and be as though they had never been.

¹⁷But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion,^b

and it will be holy;^c

the house of Jacob will dispossess^d

those who dispossessed them.^DE

¹⁸Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,^f

and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,

but the house of Esau will be stubble;

Jacob^E will set them on fire and consume Edom.^F

Therefore no survivor will remain^g

of the house of Esau,

for the Lord has spoken.

FUTURE BLESSING FOR ISRAEL

¹⁹People from the Negev will possess^h

the hill country of Esau;ⁱ

those from the Judean foothills will possess

the land of the Philistines.^j

They^G will possess

the territories of Ephraim and Samaria,^k

while Benjamin will possess Gilead.

²⁰The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah^H

and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath^l

as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

will possess the cities of the Negev.^m

²¹Saviors^I will ascend Mount Zionⁿ

to rule over the hill country of Esau,

and the kingdom will be the Lord’s.^o