Obadiah 10–16

¹⁰For the violence done to your brother Jacob,

shame shall cover you,

and you shall be cut off for ever.

¹¹On the day that you stood aloof,

on the day that strangers carried off his wealth,

and foreigners entered his gates

and cast lots for Jerusalem,

you were like one of them.

¹²But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother

in the day of his misfortune;

you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah

in the day of their ruin;

you should not have boasted

in the day of distress.

¹³You should not have entered the gate of my people

in the day of his calamity;

you should not have gloated over his disaster

in the day of his calamity;

you should not have looted his goods

in the day of his calamity.

¹⁴You should not have stood at the parting of the ways

to cut off his fugitives;

you should not have delivered up his survivors

in the day of distress.

¹⁵For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.

As you have done, it shall be done to you,

your deeds shall return on your own head.

¹⁶For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain,

all the nations round about shall drink;

they shall drink, and stagger,^b

and shall be as though they had not been.