THE BOOK OF OBADIAH
The Coming Judgment on Edom
1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God to Edom: I have heard a
report from the Lord, and He has sent forth a message to the nations.
2 “Arise, and let us rise up against her to war.
3 Behold, I have made you small among the Gentiles: you are greatly
dishonored. The pride of your heart has elated you, dwelling as you do
in the holes of the rocks, as one that exalts his habitation, saying in
his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
4 If you should mount up as the eagle, and if you should make your nest
among the stars, from there will I bring you down,” says the
Lord.
5 “If thieves came in to you, or robbers by night, where would
you have been cast away? Would they not have stolen just enough for
themselves? And if grape-gatherers went in to you, would they not leave
a gleaning?
6 How has Esau been searched out, and how have his hidden things been detected?
7 They sent you to your coasts: all the men of your covenant have
withstood you; your allies have prevailed against you, they have set
snares under you: they have no understanding.
8 In that day,” says the Lord, “I will destroy the wise men
out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau.
9 And your warriors from Teman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.
Edom Mistreated His Brother
10 “Because of the slaughter and the sin committed against your
brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
11 From the day that you stood in opposition to him, in the days when
foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into
his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, you also were as one of them.
12 And you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day
of strangers; nor should you have rejoiced against the children of
Judah in the day of their destruction; neither should you have boasted
in the day of their affliction.
13 Neither should you have gone into the gates of the people in the day
of their troubles; nor yet should you have looked upon their gathering
in the day of their destruction, nor should you have attacked their
host in the day of their perishing.
14 Neither should you have stood at the opening of their passages, to
destroy utterly those of them that were escaping; neither should you
have shut up his fugitives in the day of affliction.
15 “For the day of the Lord is near upon all the Gentiles; as you
have done, so shall it be done to you; your recompense shall be
returned on your own head.
16 For as you have drunk upon My holy mountain, so shall all the
nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they
were not.
17 But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance, and there shall be a
sanctuary; and the house of Jacob shall take for an inheritance those
that took them for an inheritance.
18 And the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a
flame, and the house of Esau shall be for stubble; and Israel shall
flame forth against them, and shall devour them, and there shall not be
a corn field left to the house of Esau; because the Lord has spoken.
19 And those that dwell in the south shall inherit the mount of Esau,
and they in the plain the Philistines: and they shall inherit the mount
of Ephraim, and the plain of Samaria, and Benjamin, and the land of
Gilead.
20 And this shall be the domain of the captivity of the children of
Israel, the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the
captives of Jerusalem shall inherit as far as Ephratha; they shall
inherit the cities of the south.
21 And they that escape shall come up from Mount Zion, to take
vengeance on the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the
Lord’s.