The Coming Judgment on Edom

1 The vision of Obadiah.

Thus says the Lord God aconcerning Edom

b(We have heard a report from the Lord,

And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying,

“Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle”):

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

You shall be greatly despised.

3 The cpride of your heart has deceived you,

You who dwell in the clefts of the rock,

Whose habitation is high;

dYou who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

4 eThough you ascend as high as the eagle,

And though you fset your nest among the stars,

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

5 “If gthieves had come to you,

If robbers by night—

Oh, how you will be cut off!—

Would they not have stolen till they had enough?

If grape-gatherers had come to you,

hWould they not have left some gleanings?

6 “Oh, how Esau shall be searched out!

How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!

7 All the men in your confederacy

Shall force you to the border;

iThe men at peace with you

Shall deceive you and prevail against you.

Those who eat your bread shall lay a 1trap for you.

jNo 2one is aware of it.

8 “Will kI not in that day,” says the Lord,

“Even destroy the wise men from Edom,

And understanding from the mountains of Esau?

9 Then your lmighty men, O mTeman, shall be dismayed,

To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau

May be cut off by slaughter.

Edom Mistreated His Brother

10 “For nviolence against your brother Jacob,

Shame shall cover you,

And oyou shall be cut off forever.

11 In the day that you pstood on the other side—

In the day that strangers carried captive his forces,

When foreigners entered his gates

And qcast lots for Jerusalem—

Even you were as one of them.

12 “But you should not have rgazed 3on the day of your brother

4In the day of his captivity;

Nor should you have srejoiced over the children of Judah

In the day of their destruction;

Nor should you have spoken proudly

In the day of distress.

13 You should not have entered the gate of My people

In the day of their calamity.

Indeed, you should not have 5gazed on their affliction

In the day of their calamity,

Nor laid hands on their substance

In the day of their calamity.

14 You should not have stood at the crossroads

To cut off those among them who escaped;

Nor should you have 6delivered up those among them who remained

In the day of distress.

15 “For tthe day of the Lord upon all the nations is near;

uAs you have done, it shall be done to you;

Your 7reprisal shall return upon your own head.

16 vFor as you drank on My holy mountain,

So shall all the nations drink continually;

Yes, they shall drink, and swallow,

And they shall be as though they had never been.

Israel’s Final Triumph

17 “But on Mount Zion there wshall be 8deliverance,

And there shall be holiness;

The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,

And the house of Joseph xa flame;

But the house of Esau shall be stubble;

They shall kindle them and devour them,

And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,”

For the Lord has spoken.

19 The 9South yshall possess the mountains of Esau,

zAnd the Lowland shall possess Philistia.

They shall possess the fields of Ephraim

And the fields of Samaria.

Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel

Shall possess the land of the Canaanites

As afar as Zarephath.

The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

bShall possess the cities of the 1South.

21 Then csaviors 2shall come to Mount Zion

To judge the mountains of Esau,

And the dkingdom shall be the Lord’s.