OBADIAH
1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith
the Lord Yahweh concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour
from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us
rise up against her in battle.
2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.
3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest
in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation [is] high; that saith in his heart,
Who shall bring me down to the ground?
4 Though thou exalt [thyself] as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among
the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith Yahweh.
5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would
they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave [some]
grapes?
6 How are [the things] of Esau searched out! [how] are
his hidden things sought up!
7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee [even] to the border: the
men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, [and] prevailed against
thee; [they that eat] thy bread have laid a wound under thee: [there is] none
understanding in him.
8 Shall I not in that day, saith Yahweh, even destroy the wise [men] out of
9 And thy mighty [men], O Teman, shall be dismayed,
to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
10 For [thy] violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and
thou shalt be cut off for ever.
11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side,
in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners
entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou [wast] as one of them.
12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of
thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest
thou have rejoiced over the children of
13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of
My people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest
not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid
[hands] on their substance in the day of their calamity;
14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway,
to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest
thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
15 For the day of Yahweh [is] near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it
shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
16 For as ye have drunk upon My holy mountain, [so]
shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall
swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
17 But upon mount
18 And the house of Jacob shall be
a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and
they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be [any]
remaining of the house of Esau; for Yahweh hath spoken [it].
19 And [they of] the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and [they of] the
plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the
fields of
20 And the captivity of this host of the children of
21 And saviours shall come up on