Obadiah 1:1-13 ▼

1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord YHWH concerning Edom: We have heard a report from YHWH, and a messenger among the nations has been sent: “Rise up, and let us rise against her for battle.

2 Behold, I am making you small among the nations—you are exceedingly despised.

3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dweller in the clefts of the rock, in the height of his dwelling, the one saying in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

4 Though you rise high like the eagle, and though your nest is set between the stars, from there I will bring you down,” a declaration of YHWH.

5 “If thieves had come to you, if plunderers by night—how you have been cut off—would they not have stolen enough for themselves? If grape-gatherers had come to you, would they not have left remaining some gleanings?

6 How Esau has been searched out, his hidden treasures sought out.

7 Up to the border they will force you—all the men of your alliance; they will deceive you and prevail against you—the men at peace with you; those of your bread will set a trap for you; there is no understanding of it.

8 Will not, on that day,” a declaration of YHWH, “I even destroy the wise men from Edom, and of understanding from the mountains of Esau?

9 And your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman, so that each man from the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.

10 From the violence to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever!

11 On the day of your standing away from before him, on the day strangers carried away captive his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates, and over Jerusalem they cast lots, even you were as one of them.

12 And you should not look on the day of your brother, on the day of his captivity; and you should not rejoice over the sons of Judah on the day of their destruction, and you should not enlarge your mouth in the day of distress.

13 You should not come into the gate of My people on the day of their calamity; you should not look—yes you—on his affliction in the day of his calamity, and you? should not send forth upon his wealth in the day of his calamity!