Edom Will Be Brought Down
The vision of Obadiah. Thus says Lord Yahweh concerning aEdom—
bWe have heard a report from Yahweh,
And an cenvoy has been sent among the nations saying,
“dArise! And let us arise against her for battle”—
2 “Behold, I will make you asmall among the nations;
You are greatly despised.
3 The aarrogance of your heart has deceived you,
You who dwell in the clefts of the bcliff,
In the height of your habitation,
Who says in his heart,
‘cWho will bring me down to earth?’
4 Though you abuild loftily like the eagle,
Though you set your nest among the bstars,
From there I will bring you down,” declares Yahweh.
5 “If athieves came to you,
If robbers by night—
Oh how you will be ruined!—
Would they not thieve only until they had enough?
If grape gatherers came to you,
bWould they not allow some gleanings to remain?
6 Oh how Esau will be asearched out
And his hidden treasures ransacked!
7 All the amen who have a covenant with you
Will send you forth to the border,
And the men at peace with you
Will deceive you and overpower you.
They who eat your bbread
Will set an ambush for you.
(There is cno discernment in him.)
8 Will I not on that day,” declares Yahweh,
“aCause the wise men to perish from Edom
And discernment from the mountain of Esau?
9 Then your amighty men will be dismayed, O bTeman,
So that each one may be ccut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
10 “Because of aviolence to your brother Jacob,
You will be covered with shame,
bAnd you will be cut off forever.
11 On the day that you astood aloof,
On the day that strangers took his wealth captive
And foreigners entered his gate
And bcast lots for Jerusalem—
cYou too were as one of them.
12 aNow do not look on your brother’s day with triumph,
The day of his misfortune.
And bdo not be glad over the sons of Judah
In the day when they perish;
And cdo not let your mouth speak great things
In the day of their distress.
13 Do not enter the gate of My people
In the aday of their disaster.
Indeed, you, do not look on their calamity with triumph
In the day of their disaster.
And do not bsend out for their wealth
In the day of their disaster.
14 Do not astand at the fork of the road
To cut down those among them who escape;
And do not deliver over their survivors
In the day of their distress.
The Day of Yahweh Is Near
15 “For the aday of Yahweh draws near on all the nations.
bAs you have done, it will be done to you.
Your cdealings will return on your own head.
16 Because just as you all adrank on bMy holy mountain,
All the nations cwill drink continually.
They will drink and swallow,
And they will be as if they never were.
17 But on Mount aZion there will be those who escape,
And it will be holy.
And the house of Jacob will bpossess their possessions.
18 Then the house of Jacob will be a afire
And the house of Joseph a flame;
But the house of Esau will be as stubble.
And they will set them on fire and consume them
So that there will be bno survivor of the house of Esau,”
For Yahweh has spoken.
The Kingdom of Yahweh
19 Then those of the Negev will apossess the mountain of Esau,
And those of the Shephelah, the bPhilistine plain;
And they will cpossess the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria,
And Benjamin will possess Gilead.
20 And the exiles of this military force of the sons of Israel,
Who are among the Canaanites as far as aZarephath,
And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad,
Will possess the bcities of the Negev.
21 And the asaviors will ascend Mount Zion
To judge the mountain of Esau,
And the bkingdom will belong to Yahweh.