Obadiah 1
1:1The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the lord God to Edom. I heard a report from the lord, and a summary he sent out unto the nations, saying, Rise up! even we should rise up against her for battle.
1:2Behold, I have made you very few among the nations, disgracing you exceedingly.
1:3Pride of your heart lifted you up, encamping in the openings of the rocks, exalting his dwelling, saying in his heart, Who shall lead me down unto the ground?
1:4If you should rise up on high as an eagle, and if in the midst of the stars you should put your nest, from there I will lead you down, says the lord.
1:5If thieves entered to you, or robbers by night, where would you be thrown away? Would they not have stolen the things fit for themselves? And if grape gatherers entered to you, would they not have left behind a gleaning?
1:6How was Esau searched out, and his hidden things forsaken?
1:7Unto the borders they sent you; all the men of your covenant opposed you; they prevailed against you; peaceable men with you put an ambush underneath you. There is no understanding in them.
1:8In that day, says the lord, I will destroy the wise ones from out of Edom, and understanding from the mount of Esau.
1:9And your warriors shall be terrified, the ones from Teman, so that man shall be removed from the mountain of Esau.
1:10Because of the slaughter and the impiety against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be removed into the eon.
1:11From which day you opposed right opposite, in the day of the capturing by foreigners of his force, and strangers entered into his gates, and over Jerusalem they cast lots, even you were as one of them.
1:12And you should not have looked upon the day of your brother in the day of strangers; and you should not have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction; and you should not have spoken great words in the day of their affliction;
1:13nor should you have entered into the gates of peoples in the day of their miseries; and you should not have looked, even you, upon their gathering in the day of their ruin; and you should not have joined in an attack upon their force in the day of their destruction;
1:14nor should you have stood upon their mountain passes to utterly destroy the ones escaping of them; nor should you have closed up the ones fleeing from them in the day of their affliction.
1:15For the day of the lord is near upon all the nations. In which manner you did, so it will be to you. Your recompense shall be recompensed unto your head.
1:16For in which manner you drank upon my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink wine; they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as not having existed.
1:17But on mount Zion there will be deliverance, and there will be a holy place. And the house of Jacob shall inherit the ones inheriting them.
1:18And the house of Jacob will be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, but the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall be burnt in them, and they shall devour them; and there will not be a wheat harvest to the house of Esau; for the lord spoke.
1:19And the ones in the Negev shall inherit the mountain of Esau, even the ones dwelling in the Sephela of the Philistines. And they shall inherit the mountain of Ephraim, and the plain of Samaria, and Benjamin, and the land of Gilead.
1:20And the displacement of this company to the sons of Israel shall inherit that of the Canaanites, unto Zarephath; and the displacement of Jerusalem, unto Ephratah, shall inherit the cities of the Negev.
1:21And the ones being rescued shall ascend from mount Zion to take vengeance on the mountain of Esau; and the kingdom will be to the lord.