CHAPTER 1
This is the vision
of Obadiah:
This is what
the Lord
GOD
says
about Edom—
We have heard
a message
from the LORD;
an envoy
has been sent
among the nations
to say, “Rise up,
and let us go
to battle
against her!”
The pride
of your heart
has deceived you—
O dwellers
in the clefts
of the rocks
whose habitation is
the heights,
who say
in your heart,
‘Who
can bring me down
to the ground?’
Though
you soar
like the eagle
and make
your nest
among
the stars,
even from there
I will bring you down,”
declares
the LORD.
“If
thieves
came
to you,
if
robbers
by night—
oh, how
you will be ruined—
would they not
steal
only what they wanted?
If
grape pickers
came
to you,
would they not
leave
some gleanings?
All
the men
allied with you
will drive
you to
the border;
those at peace with you
will deceive
and overpower
you.
Those who eat
your bread
will set
a trap
for you,
without your
awareness
of it.
In that
day,
declares
the LORD,
will I not
destroy
the wise men
of Edom
and the men of understanding
in the mountains
of Esau?
Then your mighty men,
O Teman,
will be terrified,
so that
everyone
in the mountains
of Esau
will be cut down
in the slaughter.
Because of the violence
against your brother
Jacob,
you will be covered
with shame
and cut off
forever.
On the day
you stood
aloof
while
strangers
carried off
his wealth
and foreigners
entered
his gate
and cast
lots
for
Jerusalem,
you
were just like one
of them.
But you should not
gloat
in that day,
your brother's
day
of misfortune,
nor
rejoice
over the people
of Judah
in the day
of their destruction,
nor
boast proudly
in the day
of their distress.
You should not
enter
the gate
of My people
in the day
of their disaster,
nor
gloat
over
their affliction
in the day
of their disaster,
nor
loot
their wealth
in the day
of their disaster.
Nor should you
stand
at
the crossroads
to cut off
their fugitives,
nor
deliver up
their survivors
in the day
of their distress.
For
the Day
of the LORD
is near
for
all
the nations.
As
you have done,
it will be done
to you;
your recompense
will return
upon your own head.
For
as
you have drunk
on
My holy
hill,
so all
the nations
will drink
continually.
They will drink
and gulp down,
and be
as if they had never
been.
But on Mount
Zion
there will be
deliverance,
and it will be
holy,
and the house
of Jacob
will reclaim
their possession.
Then the house
of Jacob
will be
a blazing fire,
and the house
of Joseph
a burning flame;
but the house
of Esau
will be stubble—
Jacob will set it ablaze
and consume it.
Therefore no
survivor
will remain
from the house
of Esau.”
For
the LORD
has spoken.
Those from the Negev
will possess
the mountains
of Esau;
those from the foothills
will possess the land of the Philistin
They will occupy
the fields
of Ephraim
and Samaria,
and Benjamin will possess
Gilead.
And the exiles
of this
host
of the Israelites
will possess the land of the Canaanite
as
far as Zarephath;
and the exiles
from Jerusalem
who
are in Sepharad
will possess
the cities
of the Negev.
The deliverers
will ascend
Mount
Zion
to rule over
the mountains
of Esau.
And the kingdom
will belong to
the LORD.