Obadiah 1

¹The vision of Obadiah . Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom : We have heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations : Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle !

²Behold , I will make you small among the nations ; you shall be utterly despised .

³The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock , in your lofty dwelling , who say in your heart , Who will bring me down to the ground ?

⁴Though you soar aloft like the eagle , though your nest is set among the stars , from there I will bring you down , declares the Lord.

⁵If thieves came to you, if plunderers came by night — how you have been destroyed !— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings ?

⁶How Esau has been pillaged , his treasures sought out!

⁷All your allies have driven you to your border ; those at peace with you have deceived you; they have prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you— you have no understanding .

⁸Will I not on that day , declares the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom , and understanding out of Mount Esau ?

⁹And your mighty men shall be dismayed , O Teman , so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter .

¹⁰Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob , shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever .

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 do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune ; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin ; do not boast in the day of distress .

¹³Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity ; do not gloat over his disaster in the day of his calamity ; do not loot his wealth in the day of his calamity .

¹⁴Do not stand at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives ; do not hand over 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 on my holy mountain , so all the nations shall drink continually ; they shall drink and swallow , and shall be as though they had never been.

¹⁷But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape , and it shall be holy , and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions .

¹⁸The house of Jacob shall be a fire , and the house of Joseph a flame , and the house of Esau stubble ; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau , for the Lord has spoken .

¹⁹Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau , and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines ; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria , and Benjamin shall possess Gilead .

²⁰The exiles of this host of the people of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath , and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb .

²¹Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau , and the kingdom shall be the Lord ’s.