Obadiah 1

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The Destruction of Edom

¹This is the vision of Obadiah:

This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom—

We have heard a message from the LORD;

an envoy has been sent among the nations

to say, “Rise up,

and let us go to battle against her!”—

¹The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord YHWH concerning Edom: We have heard a report from YHWH, and a messenger among the nations has been sent: “Rise up, and let us rise against her for battle.

²“Behold, I will make you small among the nations;

you will be deeply despised.

²Behold, I am making you small among the nations—you are exceedingly despised.

³The pride of your heart has deceived you,

O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks^a

whose habitation is the heights,

who say in your heart,

‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

³The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dweller in the clefts of the rock, in the height of his dwelling, the one saying in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

⁴Though you soar like the eagle

and make your nest among the stars,

even from there I will bring you down,”

declares the LORD.

⁴Though you rise high like the eagle, and though your nest is set between the stars, from there I will bring you down,” a declaration of YHWH.

⁵“If thieves came to you,

if robbers by night—

oh, how you will be ruined—

would they not steal only what they wanted?

If grape gatherers came to you,

would they not leave some gleanings?

⁵“If thieves had come to you, if plunderers by night—how you have been cut off—would they not have stolen enough for themselves? If grape-gatherers had come to you, would they not have left remaining some gleanings?

⁶But how Esau will be pillaged,

his hidden treasures sought out!

⁶How Esau has been searched out, his hidden treasures sought out.

⁷All the men allied with you

will drive you to the border;

the men at peace with you

will deceive and overpower you.

Those who eat your bread^a

will set a trap for you

without your awareness of it.

⁷Up to the border they will force you—all the men of your alliance; they will deceive you and prevail against you—the men at peace with you; those of your bread will set a trap for you; there is no understanding of it.

⁸In that day, declares the LORD,

will I not destroy the wise men of Edom

and the men of understanding

in the mountains of Esau?

⁸Will not, on that day,” a declaration of YHWH, “I even destroy the wise men from Edom, and of understanding from the mountains of Esau?

⁹Then your mighty men, O Teman,

will be terrified,

so that everyone in the mountains of Esau

will be cut down in the slaughter.

⁹And your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman, so that each man from the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.

¹⁰Because of the violence against your brother Jacob,

you will be covered with shame

and cut off forever.

¹⁰From the violence to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever!

¹¹On the day you stood aloof

while strangers carried off his wealth

and foreigners entered his gate

and cast lots for Jerusalem,

you were just like one of them.

¹¹On the day of your standing away from before him, on the day strangers carried away captive his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates, and over Jerusalem they cast lots, even you were as one of them.

¹²But you should not gloat in that day,

your brother’s day of misfortune,

nor rejoice over the people of Judah

in the day of their destruction,

nor boast proudly

in the day^a of their distress.

¹²And you should not look on the day of your brother, on the day of his captivity; and you should not rejoice over the sons of Judah on the day of their destruction, and you should not enlarge your mouth in the day of distress.

¹³You should not enter the gate of My people

in the day of their disaster,

nor gloat over their affliction

in the day of their disaster,

nor loot their wealth

in the day of their disaster.

¹³You should not come into the gate of My people on the day of their calamity; you should not look—yes you—on his affliction in the day of his calamity, and you should not send forth upon his wealth in the day of his calamity!

¹⁴Nor should you stand at the crossroads

to cut off their fugitives,

nor deliver up their survivors

in the day of their distress.

¹⁴And you should not stand at the crossroad to cut down his fugitives; and you should not deliver up his survivors in the day of distress.

The Deliverance of Israel

¹⁵For the Day of the LORD is near

for all the nations.

As you have done, it will be done to you;

your recompense will return upon your own head.

¹⁵For the day of YHWH is near, upon all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you—your recompense will return upon your own head!

¹⁶For as you drank on My holy mountain,

so all the nations will drink continually.

They will drink and gulp it down;

they will be as if they had never existed.

¹⁶For according to how you drank on the mountain of my holiness, all the nations will drink continually; they will drink and they will swallow, and they will be as if they had never existed.

¹⁷But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance,

and it will be holy,

and the house of Jacob

will reclaim their possession.

¹⁷And on Mount Zion there will be an escape, and there will be holiness, and the house of Jacob will repossess their possessions.

¹⁸Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,

and the house of Joseph a burning flame;

but the house of Esau will be stubble—

Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it.

Therefore no survivor will remain

from the house of Esau.”

For the LORD has spoken.

¹⁸And the house of Jacob will become a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau as stubble; and they will burn them and consume them, and there will not be a survivor to the house of Esau.” For YHWH has spoken.

¹⁹Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau;

those from the foothills^a will possess the land of the Philistines.

They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,

and Benjamin will possess Gilead.

¹⁹And the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau, and the Shephelah the Philistines; and they will possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and Benjamin Gilead,

²⁰And the exiles of this host of the Israelites

will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath;

and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

will possess the cities of the Negev.

²⁰and the captivity of this host of the sons of Israel, that of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.

²¹The deliverers will ascend^a Mount Zion

to rule over the mountains of Esau.

And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.

²¹And those delivering will go up onto Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be unto YHWH.