Obadiah’s Vision

1–4pp—Jer 49:14–16
5–6pp—Jer 49:9–10

1 The visiona of Obadiah.

This is what the Sovereign Lord says about Edomb—

We have heard a message from the Lord:

An envoyc was sent to the nations to say,

“Rise, let us go against her for battle”d—

2 “See, I will make you smalle among the nations;

you will be utterly despised.

3 The pridef of your heart has deceived you,

you who live in the clefts of the rocksa g

and make your home on the heights,

you who say to yourself,

‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’h

4 Though you soar like the eagle

and make your nesti among the stars,

from there I will bring you down,”j

declares the Lord.k

5 “If thieves came to you,

if robbers in the night—

oh, what a disaster awaits you!—

would they not steal only as much as they wanted?

If grape pickers came to you,

would they not leave a few grapes?l

6 But how Esau will be ransacked,

his hidden treasures pillaged!

7 All your alliesm will force you to the border;

your friends will deceive and overpower you;

those who eat your breadn will set a trap for you,b

but you will not detect it.

8 “In that day,” declares the Lord,

“will I not destroyo the wise men of Edom,

those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?

9 Your warriors, Teman,p will be terrified,

and everyone in Esau’s mountains

will be cut down in the slaughter.