﻿Obadiah.
Chapter 1.
The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord GOD says concerning Edom: We have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: “Rise, and let us rise against her for battle!” 
“Look, I have made you small among the nations; you are deeply despised. 
The pride of your heart has deceived you, dweller in the clefts of the rock, whose home is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’ 
Though you soar like the eagle and set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD. 
“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—how you have been destroyed!—would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? 
How Esau has been searched out, his hidden treasures sought out! 
All your allies have driven you to the border. Those at peace with you have deceived you and prevailed against you. Those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you. There is no understanding in him. 
On that day,” declares the LORD, “will I not destroy the wise from Edom and understanding from Mount Esau? 
Your warriors will be terrified, Teman, so that everyone on Mount Esau may be cut off by slaughter. 
Because of violence against your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. 
On the day you stood aloof, on the day strangers carried away his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you too were like one of them. 
Do not gloat over your brother’s day, the day of his misfortune. Do not rejoice over the people of Judah on the day of their destruction, and do not boast on the day of distress. 
Do not enter the gate of my people on the day of their calamity. Do not gloat, you too, over his disaster on the day of his calamity, and do not reach for his wealth on the day of his calamity. 
Do not stand at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives, and do not hand over his survivors on the day of distress. 
For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will come back upon your own head. 
For just as you drank on my holy mountain, all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and swallow, and be as though they had never existed. 
But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions. 
The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble. They will set them ablaze and consume them, and no survivor will remain of the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken. 
Those of the Negev will possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the Philistines. They will possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead. 
The exiles of this host of the people of Israel will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev. 
Deliverers will go up on Mount Zion to judge Mount Esau, and the kingdom will belong to the LORD.” 
