Obadiah 1–21

Edom Will Be Humbled

¹The vision of Obadiah.

Thus says the Lord ¹God concerning ^aEdom—

^bWe have heard a report from the Lord,

And an ^cenvoy has been sent among the nations saying,

“^dArise and let us go against her for battle”—

²“Behold, I will make you ^asmall among the nations;

You are greatly despised.

³“The ^aarrogance of your heart has deceived you,

You who live in the clefts of ¹the ^brock,

In the loftiness of your dwelling place,

Who say in your heart,

‘^cWho will bring me down to earth?’

⁴“Though you ^abuild high like the eagle,

Though you set your nest among the ^bstars,

From there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

⁵“If ^athieves came to you,

If ¹robbers by night—

O how you will be ruined!—

Would they not steal only ²until they had enough?

If grape gatherers came to you,

^bWould they not leave some gleanings?

⁶“O how Esau will be ^aransacked,

And his hidden treasures searched out!

⁷“All the ^amen ¹allied 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 ^bbread

Will set an ambush for you.

(There is ^cno understanding ²in him.)

⁸“Will I not on that day,” declares the Lord,

“^aDestroy wise men from Edom

And understanding from the mountain of Esau?

⁹“Then your ^amighty men will be dismayed, O ^bTeman,

So that everyone may be ^ccut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

¹⁰“Because of ^aviolence to your brother Jacob,

¹You will be covered with shame,

^bAnd you will be cut off forever.

¹¹“On the day that you ^astood aloof,

On the day that strangers carried off his wealth,

And foreigners entered his gate

And ^bcast lots for Jerusalem—

^cYou too were as one of them.

¹²“^aDo not ¹gloat over your brother’s day,

The day of his misfortune.

And ^bdo not rejoice over the sons of Judah

In the day of their destruction;

Yes, ^cdo not ²boast

In the day of their distress.

¹³“Do not enter the gate of My people

In the ^aday of their disaster.

Yes, you, do not ¹gloat over their calamity

In the day of their disaster.

And do not ^bloot their wealth

In the day of their disaster.

¹⁴“Do not ^astand at the fork of the road

To cut down their fugitives;

And do not imprison their survivors

In the day of their distress.

The Day of the Lord and the Future

¹⁵“For the ^aday of the Lord draws near on all the nations.

^bAs you have done, it will be done to you.

Your ^cdealings will return on your own head.

¹⁶“Because just as you ^adrank on ^bMy holy mountain,

All the nations ^cwill drink continually.

They will drink and ¹swallow

And become as if they had never existed.

¹⁷“But on Mount ^aZion there will be those who escape,

And it will be holy.

And the house of Jacob will ^bpossess their possessions.

¹⁸“Then the house of Jacob will be a ^afire

And the house of Joseph a flame;

But the house of Esau will be as stubble.

And they will set ¹them on fire and consume them,

So that there will be ^bno survivor of the house of Esau,”

For the Lord has spoken.

¹⁹Then those of the ¹Negev will ^apossess the mountain of Esau,

And those of the ²Shephelah the ^bPhilistine plain;

Also, ^cpossess the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria,

And Benjamin will possess Gilead.

²⁰And the exiles of this host of the sons of Israel,

Who are among the Canaanites as far as ^aZarephath,

And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

Will possess the ^bcities of the Negev.

²¹The ^adeliverers will ascend Mount Zion

To judge the mountain of Esau,

And the ^bkingdom will be the Lord’s.