Obadiah
1:1The vision of Obadiah. This is what the
Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard
news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent
among the nations, saying, "Arise,
and let's rise up against her in battle.
1:2Behold, I have made you small among the
nations. You are greatly despised. 1:3The pride of your
heart has deceived you, you who dwell in
the clefts of the rock, whose habitation
is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will
bring me down to the ground?' 1:4Though you mount on high as the eagle,
and though your nest is set among the stars,
I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
1:5If thieves came to you, if robbers by
night-- oh, what disaster awaits you--wouldn't
they only steal until they had enough? If
grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they
leave some gleaning grapes? 1:6How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden
treasures are sought out! 1:7All the men of your
alliance have brought you on your way, even
to the border. The men who were at peace
with you have deceived you, and prevailed
against you. Friends who eat your bread
lay a snare under you. There is no understanding
in him.
1:8"Won't I in that day," says
Yahweh, "destroy the wise men out of
Edom, and understanding out of the mountain
of Esau? 1:9Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed,
to the end that everyone may be cut off
from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
1:10For the violence done to your brother
Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will
be cut off forever. 1:11In the day that you stood on the other
side, in the day that strangers carried
away his substance, and foreigners entered
into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem,
even you were like one of them. 1:12But don't look down on your brother in
the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice
over the children of Judah in the day of
their destruction. Don't speak proudly in
the day of distress. 1:13Don't enter into the gate of my people
in the day of their calamity. Don't look
down on their affliction in the day of their
calamity, neither seize their wealth on
the day of their calamity. 1:14Don't stand in the crossroads to cut
off those of his who escape. Don't deliver
up those of his who remain in the day of
distress. 1:15For the day of Yahweh is near all the
nations! As you have done, it will be done
to you. Your deeds will return upon your
own head. 1:16For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
so will all the nations drink continually.
Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and
will be as though they had not been. 1:17But in Mount Zion, there will be those
who escape, and it will be holy. The house
of Jacob will possess their possessions.
1:18The house of Jacob will be a fire, the
house of Joseph a flame, and the house of
Esau for stubble. They will burn among them,
and devour them. There will not be any remaining
to the house of Esau." Indeed, Yahweh
has spoken.
1:19Those of the South will possess the mountain
of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines.
They will possess the field of Ephraim,
and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will
possess Gilead. 1:20The captives of this host of the children
of Israel, who are among the Canaanites,
will possess even to Zarephath; and the
captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad,
will possess the cities of the Negev. 1:21Saviors will go
up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains
of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh's.
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