1:1The vision of Obadiah. This is
what the Lord GOD says about Edom. We have heard news from THE LORD, and
an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let's
rise up against her in battle. 1:2Behold, I have made you small
among the nations. You are greatly despised. 1:3The pride of
your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down
to the ground?' 1:4Though you mount on high as the
eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down
from there, says THE LORD. 1:5If thieves came to you, if robbers
by night-- oh, what disaster awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until
they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some
gleaning grapes? 1:6How Esau will be ransacked! How
his hidden treasures are sought out! 1:7All the men
of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men
who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you.
Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no
understanding in him.
1:8"Won't I in that day,"
says THE LORD, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out
of the mountain of Esau? 1:9Your mighty men, Teman, will be
dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of
Esau by slaughter. 1:10For the violence done to your
brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. 1:11In the day that you stood on the
other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and
foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you
were like one of them. 1:12But don't look down on your
brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of
Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of
distress. 1:13Don't enter into the gate of my
people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their affliction
in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of
their calamity. 1:14Don't stand in the crossroads to
cut off those of his who escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain
in the day of distress. 1:15For the day of THE LORD is near all
the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will
return upon your own head. 1:16For as you have drunk on my holy
mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink,
swallow down, and will be as though they had not been. 1:17But in Mount Zion, there will be
those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess
their possessions. 1:18The house of Jacob will be a
fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They
will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to
the house of Esau." Indeed, THE LORD has spoken.
1:19Those of the South will possess
the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will
possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will
possess Gilead. 1:20The captives of this host of the
children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to
Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will
possess the cities of the Negev. 1:21Saviors
will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom
will be THE LORD's.
