1 Vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard the cry of the Lord, and a messenger has been sent to the nations. Arise, and let us rise against this people in battle.
2 Behold, I have made you small among the nations; You are greatly dejected.
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rocks, in your highest dwelling place; that you say in your heart: Who will throw me to the ground?
4 If you soar like an eagle, and though you make your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the Lord.
5 If thieves came to you, or robbers by night (how you have been destroyed!), would they not steal what was enough for them? If grape harvesters came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleanings?
6 How the things of Esau were searched! His hidden treasures were sought.
7 All your allies have deceived you; They made you reach the ends; those who were at peace with you prevailed against you; Those who ate your bread put a snare under you; there is no understanding in it.
8 Shall I not cause to perish on that day, says the Lord, the wise men of Edom, and the understanding of Mount Esau?
9 And your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified; for every man will be cut off from the mountain of Esau by the destruction.
10 For your insult to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
11 In the day when you stood before him, strangers took his army captive, and strangers entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, you also were like one of them.
12 For you should not have been looking on your brother’s day, on the day of his misfortune; You should not have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor should you have boasted in the day of trouble.
13 You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of their destruction; no, you should not have looked upon his evil in the day of his calamity, nor have laid hold on his wealth in the day of his calamity.
14 Nor should you have stood at the crossroads to kill those who escaped from them; nor should you have delivered up those who remained in the day of trouble.
15 For the day of the Lord is near upon all nations; as you did it will be done to you; your reward will return on your head.
16 As you drank on my holy mountain, all nations will drink continually; They will drink, and devour, and will be as if they had not been.
17 But on Mount Zion there will be a remnant that will be saved; and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will recover its possessions.
18 The house of Jacob will be fire, and the house of Joseph will be flame, and the house of Esau will be stubble, and they will burn them and consume them; Not even a remnant will remain of the house of Esau, because the Lord has said so.
19 And those of the Negev will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of Shephelah the Philistines; They will also possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria; and Benjamin to Gilead.
20 And the captives of this army of the children of Israel will possess the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.
21 And saviors will go up to Mount Zion to judge Mount Esau; and the kingdom will be Jehovah’s.
