Obadiah

¹ The vision of Obadiah. Thus says Lord Yahweh concerning Edom—We have heard a report from Yahweh, And an envoy has been sent among the nations saying, “Arise! And let us arise against her for battle”—

² You are greatly despised.

³ You who dwell in the clefts of the cliff, In the height of your habitation, Who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to earth?’

⁴ Though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down,” declares Yahweh.

⁵ If robbers by night— Oh how you will be ruined!— Would they not thieve only until they had enough? If grape gatherers came to you, Would they not allow some gleanings to remain?

⁶ And his hidden treasures ransacked!

⁷ Will send you forth to the border, And the men at peace with you Will deceive you and overpower you. They who eat your bread Will set an ambush for you. (There is no discernment in him.)

⁸ “Cause the wise men to perish from Edom And discernment from the mountain of Esau?

⁹ So that each one may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

¹⁰ You will be covered with shame, And you will be cut off forever.

¹¹ On the day that strangers took his wealth captive And foreigners entered his gate And cast lots for Jerusalem— You too were as one of them.

¹² The day of his misfortune. And do not be glad over the sons of Judah In the day when they perish; And do not let your mouth speak great things In the day of their distress.

¹³ In the day of their disaster. Indeed, you, do not look on their calamity with triumph In the day of their disaster. And do not send out for their wealth In the day of their disaster.

¹⁴ To cut down those among them who escape; And do not deliver over their survivors In the day of their distress.

¹⁵ “For the day of Yahweh draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealings will return on your own head.

¹⁶ All the nations will drink continually. They will drink and swallow, And they will be as if they never were.

¹⁷ And it will be holy. And the house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

¹⁸ And the house of Joseph a flame; But the house of Esau will be as stubble. And they will set them on fire and consume them So that there will be no survivor of the house of Esau,” For Yahweh has spoken.

¹⁹ Then those of the Negev will possess the mountain of Esau, And those of the Shephelah, the Philistine plain; And they will possess the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria, And Benjamin will possess Gilead.

²⁰ Who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad, Will possess the cities of the Negev.

²¹ To judge the mountain of Esau, And the kingdom will belong to Yahweh.