Obadiah 1:1-9 ▼

1 Thus said Lord YHWH to Edom || (We have heard a report from YHWH, || And an ambassador among nations was sent, || “Rise, indeed, let us rise against her for battle”):

2 “Behold, I have made you little among nations, || You [are] despised exceedingly.

3 The pride of your heart has lifted you up, || O dweller in clefts of a rock || (A high place [is] his habitation, || He is saying in his heart: Who brings me down [to] earth?)

4 If you go up high as an eagle, || And if you set your nest between stars, || From there I bring you down,” || A declaration of YHWH.

5 “If thieves have come in to you, || If spoilers of the night, || How have you been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to you, || Do they not leave gleanings?

6 How has Esau been searched out! His hidden things have flowed out,

7 All your allies have sent you to the border, || Forgotten you, prevailed over you, have your friends, || They make your bread a snare under you, || There is no understanding in him!

8 Is it not in that day,” a declaration of YHWH, || “That I have destroyed the wise out of Edom, || And understanding out of the mountain of Esau?

9 And your mighty ones have been broken down, O Teman, || So that everyone of the mountain of Esau is cut off.