Obadiah 10–16

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.

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.

^16vFor 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.