OBADIAH

The vision of Obadiah.

EDOM’S CERTAIN JUDGMENT

This is what the Lord God has said about Edom:a

We have heard a message from the Lord;b

an envoy has been sentc among the nations:

“Rise up,d and let’s go to war against her.”A

2 Look, I will make you insignificante

among the nations;

you will be deeply despised.

3 Your arrogant heart has deceived you,f

you who live in clefts of the rockB,C,g

in your home on the heights,

who say to yourself,

“Who can bring me down to the ground?”h

4 Though you seem to soarD like an eaglei

and make your nest among the stars,j

even from there I will bring you down.

This is the Lord’s declaration.

5 If thieves came to you,k

if marauders by night—

how ravaged you would be!—

wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?

If grape harvesters came to you,

wouldn’t they leave a few grapes?l

6 How Esau will be pillaged,m

his hidden treasures searched out!n

7 Everyone who has a treaty with youo

will drive you to the border;

everyone at peace with you

will deceive and conquer you.

Those who eat your breadp

will setE a trap for you.

He will be unaware of it.q

8 In that day—

this is the Lord’s declaration—

will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edomr

and those who understand

from the hill country of Esau?

9 Teman,F,s your warriorst will be terrified

so that everyone from the hill country of Esau

will be destroyed by slaughter.u

EDOM’S SINS AGAINST JUDAH

10 You will be covered with shame

and destroyed forever

because of violence done to your brother Jacob.v

11 On the day you stood aloof,w

on the day strangers captured his wealth,G

while foreigners entered his city gate

and cast lots for Jerusalem,x

you were just like one of them.y

12 Do not* gloat over your brotherz

in the day of his calamity;

do not rejoice over the people of Judahaa

in the day of their destruction;

do not boastfully mockI,ab

in the day of distress.ac

13 Do not enter my people’s city gate

in the day of their disaster.ad

Yes, you—do not gloat over their misery

in the day of their disaster,

and do not appropriate their possessionsae

in the day of their disaster.

14 Do not stand at the crossroadsJ,af

to cut off their fugitives,

and do not hand over their survivors

in the day of distress.

JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS

15 For the day of the Lordag is near,

against all the nations.ah

As you have done,ai it will be done to you;

what you deserve will return on your own head.aj

16 As you have drunk on my holy mountain,ak

so all the nations will drink continually.a

They will drink and gulp down

and be as though they had never been.

17 But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion,b

and it will be holy;c

the house of Jacob will dispossessd

those who dispossessed them.A,e

18 Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,f

and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,

but the house of Esau will be stubble;

JacobB will set them on fire and consume Edom.C

Therefore no survivor will remaing

of the house of Esau,

for the Lord has spoken.

FUTURE BLESSING FOR ISRAEL

19 People from the Negev will possessh

the hill country of Esau;i

those from the Judean foothills will possess

the land of the Philistines.j

TheyD will possess

the territories of Ephraim and Samaria,k

while Benjamin will possess Gilead.

20 The exiles of the Israelites who are in HalahE

and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephathl

as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

will possess the cities of the Negev.m

21 SaviorsF will ascend Mount Zionn

to rule over the hill country of Esau,

and the kingdom will be the Lord’s.o

JONAH

JONAH’S FLIGHT

1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai:a 2 “Get up!b Go to the great cityc of Ninevehd and preach against ite because their evilf has come up before me.”g 3 Jonah got up to flee to Tarshishh from the Lord’s presence.i He went downj to Joppak and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the Lord’s presence.

4 But the Lord threwl a great wind onto the sea,m and such a great storm arose on the sea that the ship threatened to break apart. 5 The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his god.n They threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load.o Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.p

6 The captain approached him and said, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up! Call to your god.A,q Maybe this god will consider us,r and we won’t perish.”

7 “Come on!” the sailors said to each other. “Let’s cast lots.s Then we’ll know who is to blame for this trouble we’re in.” So they cast lots, and the lot singled out Jonah.t 8 Then they said to him, “Tell us who is to blame for this trouble we’re in.u What is your business,v and where are you from? What is your country, and what people are you from?”

9 He answered them, “I’m a Hebrew.w I worshipB the Lord,x the God of the heavens,y who made the seaz and the dry land.”

10 Then the men were seized by a great fear and said to him, “What have you done?” The men knew he was fleeing from the Lord’s presenceaa because he had told them. 11 So they said to him, “What should we do to you so that the sea will calm down for us?” For the sea was getting worse and worse.

12 He answered them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea so that it will calm down for you, for I know that I’m to blameab for this great storm that is against you.” 13 Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they couldn’t because the sea was raging against them more and more.

14 So they called out to the Lord,ac “Please, Lord, don’t let us perish because of this man’s life, and don’t charge us with innocent blood! For you, Lord, have done just as you pleased.”ad 15 Then they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.ae 16 The men were seized by great fear of the Lord,af and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.ag

17 The Lord appointed a great fishah to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.ai