Obadiah 1:1-13 ▼

1 Obadiah's vision: This is what the Lord GOD has to say about Edom. We have heard a report from the LORD, and a messenger has been dispatched among the nations to say |Get up! Let us rise up against her to fight!|

2 |Look! I will make you insignificant among the nations; you will be utterly despised.

3 The arrogance in your heart has deceived you, who inhabit hidden places on rocky cliffs, whose dwelling is in the heights, who say continuously to yourself, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'

4 Though you soar high like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, I will bring you down even from there,| declares the LORD.

5 |If thieves came against you, if marauding gangs by night —Oh, how you will be destroyed!— Would they not steal only until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave some grapes to be gleaned?

6 |Oh, how Esau is ransacked, how his hidden treasures are thoroughly searched out!

7 All your allies will force you out of the land, your associates will deceive you and prevail against you. Your friends will lay out a trap for you, and you will never understand it!

8 |In that day,| declares the LORD, |will I not destroy the wise from Edom, and those with understanding from Esau's Mountain?

9 Teman, our mighty soldiers will be dismayed, so that every man from Esau's Mountain will be slaughtered.|

10 |Shame will overwhelm you because of the violence you inflicted on your brother Jacob, and you will be excluded forever.

11 |On the day you just stood by, when strangers carried away Jacob's wealth and foreigners entered his gates, casting lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.

12 |You should not have gloated over your brother, on the day of his calamity. You should not have rejoiced when the descendants of Judah were perishing. You should not have boasted when they were in distress.

13 |You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their disaster. Also, you should not have gloated over Judah's misfortune on the day of his disaster, nor should you have plundered his wealth on the day of his disaster.