Obadiah 1–14

The Coming Judgment on Edom

¹The 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.

³The ^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?’

^4eThough 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!

⁷All 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?

⁹Then 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.

¹¹In 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.

¹³You 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.

¹⁴You 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.