Book of Obadiah
Obadiah
¶ Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom:
We have heard tidings from the LORD,
and a messenger has been sent among the nations:
“Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
you shall be utterly despised.
you who live in the clefts of the rock,[a]
whose dwelling is high,
who say in your heart,
“Who will bring me down to the ground?”
though your nest is set among the stars,
thence I will bring you down,
says the LORD.
if plunderers 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 gleanings?
his treasures sought out!
they have driven you to the border;
your confederates have prevailed against you;
your trusted friends have set a trap under you—
there is no understanding of it.
destroy the wise men out of Edom,
and understanding out of Mount Esau?
so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
shame shall cover you,
and you shall be cut off for ever.
on the day that strangers carried off his wealth,
and foreigners entered his gates
and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.
in the day of his misfortune;
you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah
in the day of their ruin;
you should not have boasted
in the day of distress.
in the day of his calamity;
you should not have gloated over his disaster
in the day of his calamity;
you should not have looted his goods
in the day of his calamity.
to cut off his fugitives;
you should not have delivered up his survivors
in the day of distress.
As you have done, it shall be done to you,
your deeds shall return on your own head.
all the nations round about shall drink;
they shall drink, and stagger,[b]
and shall be as though they had not been.
and it shall be holy;
and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
and 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 to the house of Esau;
for the LORD has spoken.
and those of the Shephe′lah the land of the Philistines;
they shall possess the land of E′phraim and the land of Samar′ia
and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
shall possess[d] Phoenicia as far as Zar′ephath;
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sephar′ad
shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
to rule Mount Esau;
and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.FOOTNOTES
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