Obadiah 1:1-21
1 The vision of Obadiah,—Thus saith My Lord Yahweh Concerning Edom—A rumour have we heard from Yahweh And a herald throughout the nations hath been sent, Up! and let us rise against her to war.
2 Lo! small have I made thee among the nations,—Despised art thou exceedingly!
3 The insolence of thy heart hath deceived thee, O thou that inhabitest The retreats of the crag, The height of his habitation,—That saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
4 Though thou build high like an eagle, And though among the stars thou set thy nest From thence will I bring thee down, Declareth Yahweh.
5 If thieves had come to thee, If robbers by night—how ruined thou art! Would they not have stolen what sufficed them? If grape-gatherers had come to thee Would they not have left gleanings?
6 How have The things of Esau been searched out! His treasures been sought up!
7 Up to the boundary have they sent thee—All thy covenant men, They have deceived thee, prevailed against thee—The men thou wast wont to salute,—The partakers of thy bread have put a net under thee—No understanding in him!
8 Shall it not be in that day Demandeth Yahweh,—That I will destroy The wise men out of Edom, And understanding out of Mount Esau?
9 So shall thy mighty men, O Teman, be dismayed,—To the intent that every man may be cut off out of Mount Esau by slaughter.
10 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shall shame cover thee,—So shalt thou be cut off to times age-abiding.
11 In the day when thou didst take thy stand over against him, In the day when foreigners took captive his forces,—And aliens entered his gates and over Jerusalem cast lots Even thou wast like one of them!
12 Do not then look with satisfaction Upon the day of thy brother, Upon the day of his calamity, Neither rejoice over the sons of Judah—In the day of their ruin,—Nor enlarge thy mouth—In the day of distress:
13 Do not enter into the gate of my people—In the day of their misfortune, Do not thou also look with satisfaction on his misery—In the day of his misfortune; Neither do thou thrust [thy hands] on his substance—In the day of his misfortune;
14 Neither do thou stand at the parting of the way, To cut off his fugitives,—Neither do thou deliver up his survivors—In the day of distress.
15 For near is the day of Yahweh upon all the nations,—Just as thou hast done shall it be done to thee, Thy dealing shall come back upon thine own head.
16 For as ye have drunk on my holy mountain All the nations shall drink continually,—Yea they shall drink and swallow down, And shall be as though they had not been.
17 But in Mount Zion shall be a delivered remnant which shall be holy,—And the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions;
18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire And the house of Joseph a flame With the house of Esau for stubble, So shall they kindle upon them and devour them,—And there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau, For Yahweh hath spoken.
19 Then shall they of the South possess Mount Esau And they of the Lowlands the Philistines, And they [of the Mountain] shall possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria,—And Benjamin [shall possess] Gilead;
20 And they of the captivity of this force pertaining to the sons of Israel [shall possess] that of the Canaanites up to Zarephath, And they of the captivity of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the South.
21 And saviours shall come up in Mount Zion, To judge the mountain of Esau,—So shall the kingdom belong unto Yahweh.
