Obadiah 1
1THE vision of Obadiah:
Thus saith the Lord God to Idumea, (I heard the report from the Lord, when He sent a message to the nations,—Arise and let us go up against her to battle):
2Behold, I have made thee very small among the nations: thou art dishonoured in a high degree.
3The pride of thy heart puffed thee up, dwelling in the clefts of rocks. (Having made his habitation high, he said in his heart, Who can bring me down to the ground?)
4Though thou shouldst soar aloft like an eagle, and make thy nest among the stars; thence I will pull thee down, saith the Lord.
5If thieves come to thee, or robbers by night, in what place soever thou mayst be cast, would they not steal what suited themselves? And if grape-gatherers came to thee, would they leave no gleaning?
6How Esau hath been searched! are even his hidden stores left? They have driven thee to the borders.
7All the men in league with thee, have risen up against thee. Thy men of peace prevailed against thee. They laid snares under thee. They have no understanding.
8In that day, saith the Lord, I will destroy wise men out of Idumea, and understanding out of the mount of Esau.
9And thy warriors from Thaiman shall be dismayed, that man may be removed from the mountain of Esau.
10On account of the impious slaughter of thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever.
11From the day that thou didst become an adversary, whenever the Philistines captivated his army, or strangers entered his gates and cast lots on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them.
12But thou shouldst not have looked on thy brother’s day in the day of strangers, nor rejoiced over the children of Juda in the day of their destruction; nor shouldst thou have vaunted in the day of affliction;
13nor entered people’s gates in the day of their distresses.
Thou especially shouldst not have beheld their congregation in the day of their destruction, nor joined to fall on their army in the day of their defeat;
14nor beset the passes to cut off such of them as were escaping; nor shouldst thou have hemmed in his fugitives, in a calamitous day.
15Because the day of the Lord against all the nations is near, as thou hast done so shall it be done to thee: thy dealings shall be returned on thy head.
16For in the same manner as thou hast drunk on My holy mountain, all the nations shall be drunk up as wine. They shall be drunk up and swallowed down, and be as if they had never been.
17But on mount Sion shall be safety and a sanctuary;
18and the house of Jacob shall possess those who possessed them; and the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph, a flame; and the house of Esau shall be as stubble; and upon these they shall kindle and consume them, so that there shall not be a torch-bearer to the house of Esau. For the Lord hath spoken.
19And they in the south shall inherit the mountain of Esau; and those in Sephale shall inherit the Philistines; and they shall possess mount Ephraim and the plain of Samaria and Benjamin and Galaaditis.
20And this shall be the dominion of the captivity—to the Israelites shall belong the land of the Chananites to Sarepta; and to the captives of Jerusalem, to Ephratha: they shall possess the cities of south [Juda].
21And they who have been preserved shall go up from mount Sion to execute vengeance on the mountain of Esau. And the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.