The Coming Judgment on Edom
1 The vision of Obadiah.
# Thus says the LordGodconcerning Edom
# (We have heard a report from theLord,
And a messenger has been sent among the nations,saying,
“Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle”):
2 “Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
You shall be greatly despised.
3 Thepride of your heart has deceived you,
Youwho dwell in the clefts of the rock,
Whose habitation is high;
# Youwho say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
4 Though you ascendashigh as the eagle,
# And though youset your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down,” says theLord.
5 “Ifthieves had come to you,
If robbers by night—
Oh, how you will be cut off!—
Would they not have stolen till they had enough?
If grape-gatherers had come to you,
# Would they not have leftsomegleanings?
6 “Oh, how Esau shall be searched out!
Howhis hidden treasures shall be sought after!
7 All the men in your confederacy
Shall force you to the border;
# The men at peace with you
Shall deceive youandprevail against you.
Thosewhoeatyour bread shall lay a trap for you.
# No one is aware of it.
8 “WillI not in that day,” says theLord,
“Even destroy the wisemenfrom Edom,
And understanding from the mountains of Esau?
9 Then yourmighty men, OTeman, shall be dismayed,
To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau
May be cut off by slaughter.
Edom Mistreated His Brother
10 “Forviolence against your brother Jacob,
Shame shall cover you,
# Andyou shall be cut off forever.
11 In the day that youstood on the other side—
In the day that strangers carried captive his forces,
When foreigners entered his gates
# Andcast lots for Jerusalem—
Even youwereas one of them.
12 “But you should not havegazed on the day of your brother
In the day of his captivity;
# Nor should you haverejoiced over the children of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Nor should you have spoken proudly
In the day of distress.
13 You should not have entered the gate of My people
In the day of their calamity.
Indeed, you should not have gazed on their affliction
In the day of their calamity,
Nor laidhandson their substance
In the day of their calamity.
14 You should not have stood at the crossroads
To cut off those among them who escaped;
Nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained
In the day of distress.
15 “Forthe day of theLordupon all the nationsisnear;
# As you have done, it shall be done to you;
Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.
16 For as you drank on My holy mountain,
Soshall all the nations drink continually;
Yes, they shall drink, and swallow,
And they shall be as though they had never been.
Israel’s Final Triumph
17 “But on Mount Zion thereshall be deliverance,
And there shall be holiness;
The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
# And the house of Josepha flame;
But the house of Esaushallbestubble;
They shall kindle them and devour them,
And no survivor shallremainof the house of Esau,”
For theLordhas spoken.
19 The Southshall possess the mountains of Esau,
# And the Lowland shall possess Philistia.
They shall possess the fields of Ephraim
And the fields of Samaria.
BenjaminshallpossessGilead.
20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel
Shallpossessthelandof the Canaanites
# Asfar as Zarephath.
The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
# Shall possess the cities of the South.
21 Thensaviors shall come to Mount Zion
To judge the mountains of Esau,
# And thekingdom shall be theLord’s.