(Obadiah) The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We
have heard a
report from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up!
Let us rise
against it for battle!" 2 I will surely make you least among the nations; you shall be
utterly
despised. 3 Your proud heart has deceived you, you that live in the clefts of the rock,
whose
dwelling is in the heights. You say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the
ground?" 4
Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from
there I will
bring you down, says the LORD. 5 If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night --how
you have
been destroyed!-- would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape-gatherers came
to you,
would they not leave gleanings? 6 How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures searched
out! 7 All
your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates
have
prevailed against you; those who ate your bread have set a trap for you-- there is no
understanding of it. 8 On that day, says the LORD, I will destroy the wise out of Edom,
and
understanding out of Mount Esau. 9 Your warriors shall be shattered, O Teman, so that
everyone
from Mount Esau will be cut off. 10 For the slaughter and violence done to your brother
Jacob,
shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. 11 On the day that you stood
aside, on
the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast
lots for
Jerusalem, you too were like one of them. 12 But you should not have gloated over
your brother
on the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah on
the day of
their ruin; you should not have boasted on the day of distress. 13 You should not have
entered the
gate of my people on the day of their calamity; you should not have joined in the
gloating over
Judah's disaster on the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods on
the day of his
calamity. 14 You should not have stood at the crossings to cut off his fugitives; you
should not
have handed over his survivors on the day of distress. 15 For the day of the LORD is
near against
all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on
your own
head. 16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, all the nations around you shall
drink; they
shall drink and gulp down, and shall be as though they had never been. 17 But on
Mount Zion
there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall take
possession
of those who dispossessed them. 18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, the house of
Joseph a
flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and
there shall be
no survivor of the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken. 19 Those of the Negeb
shall possess
Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess
the land of
Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. 20 The exiles of
the
Israelites who are in Halah shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles
of Jerusalem
who are in Sepharad shall possess the towns of the Negeb. 21 Those who have been
saved shall
go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.
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