Chapter
1
1: The
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 it for battle!"
2: I
will surely make you least among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.
3: Your
proud heart has deceived you, you that live in the clefts of the rock, whose
dwelling is in the heights. You say in your heart, "Who will bring me down
to the ground?"
4: Though
you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from
there I will bring you down, says the Lord.
5: If
thieves came to you, if plunderers by night —how you have been destroyed!—
would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape-gatherers came to you,
would they not leave gleanings?
6: How
Esau has been pillaged, his treasures searched out!
7: All
your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your
confederates have prevailed against you; those who ate your bread have set
a trap for you— there is no understanding of it.
8: On
that day, says the Lord, I will destroy the wise out of Edom, and understanding
out of Mount Esau.
9: Your
warriors shall be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone from Mount Esau will be
cut off.
10: For
the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you,
and you shall be cut off forever.
11: On
the day that you stood aside, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth,
and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you too were like
one of them.
12: But
you should not have gloatedover your brother on the day of his misfortune;
you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah on the day of their ruin;
you should not have boasted on the day of distress.
13: You
should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their calamity; you
should not have joined in the gloating over Judah'sdisaster on the day of his
calamity; you should not have looted his goods on the day of his calamity.
14: You
should not have stood at the crossings to cut off his fugitives; you should not
have handed over his survivors on the day of distress.
15: For
the day of the Lord is near against all the nations. As you have done, it shall
be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
16: For
as you have drunk on my holy mountain, all the nations around you shall drink;
they shall drink and gulp down, and shall be as though they had never
been.
17: But
on Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the
house of Jacob shall take possession of those who dispossessed them.
18: The
house of Jacob shall be a fire, 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 of the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
19: Those
of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of
the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of
Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20: The
exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah shall possess Phoenicia as
far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess
the towns of the Negeb.
21: Those
who have been saved shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the
kingdom shall be the Lord's.
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