Obadiah 1
1 The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! Let us rise up against her for battle!”
2 Look, I am making you small among the nations; you are greatly despised.
3 Your proud heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, and say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
4 Even if you soar high like the eagle and set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down, says the LORD.
5 If thieves came to you, if robbers came by night—how you have been destroyed!—wouldn’t they steal only what they needed? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave a few grapes behind?
6 How Esau has been searched out! How his hidden treasures have been ransacked!
7 All your allies have sent you to the border; your friends have deceived you and overpowered you; those who eat your bread have laid a trap beneath you—and there is no understanding in him.
8 On that day, says the LORD, I will make the wise men of Edom disappear, and understanding from the mountain of Esau.
9 Your warriors will be terrified, Teman, so that everyone on the mountain of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.
10 Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
11 On the day you stood aside, on the day foreigners carried off his wealth, and strangers entered his gates and cast lots over Jerusalem, you too were like one of them.
12 Do not look on the day of your brother, the day of his calamity; do not rejoice over the people of Judah on the day they are destroyed, and do not speak boastfully on the day of distress.
13 Do not enter the gate of my people on the day of their ruin; do not, you too, look on their suffering on the day of their ruin, and do not lay hands on their wealth on the day of their ruin.
14 Do not stand at the crossroads to kill those who escape, and do not hand over his survivors on the day of distress.
15 For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations: as you have done, so it will be done to you; what you have done will come back upon your own head.
16 For just as you drank on my holy mountain, all the nations will drink without end; they will drink and swallow, and they will be as though they had never existed.
17 But on Mount Zion there will be survivors, and it will be holy; and the house of Jacob will take possession of its inheritances.
18 The house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame; the house of Esau will be straw, and they will burn and consume it. No one will remain from the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.
19 Those of the Negeb will take possession of the mountain of Esau, and those of the Shephelah of the land of the Philistines; they will take possession of the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will take possession of Gilead.
20 The exiles of this army, the Israelites among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem in Sepharad will take possession of the towns of the Negeb.
21 Deliverers will go up to Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom will belong to the LORD.
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