The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Sovereign LORD concerning Edom: “We have heard a message from the LORD, and an ambassador (envoy) is sent among the nations to say, ‘Arise, and let us go against her (Edom) in battle. 2Behold, I will make you small among the nations, and greatly despised. 3Your prideful heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose home is in the heights; and says to himself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’ 4Though you soar as high as the eagle, and build your nest among the stars, from there I, the LORD, will bring you down. 5If thieves or robbers come by night, would they not steal till they have enough? If the grape-gatherers come, would they not leave some grapes? But those that are coming are your sworn enemy – they will wipe you out! 6All the things of Edom (Esau) will be searched out and ransacked! His hidden treasures found and taken! 7All your confederates (allies) will turn on you; your friends who were at peace with you will deceive and prevail against you; those who have eaten your bread will set a trap for you; but you will never detect it. 8 “In that day”, says the LORD, “shall I not destroy the wise men out of Edom, those of understanding out of the mountains of Esau? 9And your warriors, O Teman (Gen.36:11), shall be afraid, and everyone of the mountains of Esau will be slaughtered. 10Because of your violence against your brother, Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be destroyed forever. 11In that day that you stood aside while strangers invaded Jacob’s gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem and carried away captive his forces, you acted like one of them. 12But you should not have gloated on that day over your brother’s calamity; nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor should you have spoken proudly in his day of distress. 13You should not have marched through the gates of My people in the day of their calamity; yea, you should not have looked on their affliction nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity; 14Nor should you have stood at the crossroads, to cut off those of his people that tried to escape; nor should you have handed over his survivors in his day of distress. 15For the day of the LORD is near for all nations: as you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return upon your own head.

16For just as you have drunk upon My holy mountain (Mount Zion), so shall all the surrounding nations drink continually; and shall swallow their punishment, and they shall disappear as though they had never been. 17But Mount Zion (Jerusalem) shall be a refuge for those to escape, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall reclaim their inheritance. 18And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau will be stubble, and they shall set a fire on him that shall destroy him; leaving no survivors of the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken it. 19And the people from the Negev shall occupy the mountains of Esau; and they of the Shephelah (foothills and plain) shall occupy the land of the Philistines; and shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and Samaria; and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. 20And the exiles of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites, as far as to Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad, shall return and possess the towns of the Negev {south}. 21And rescued ones shall go up on Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.