Judgment on Edom

¹The 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, saying:

“Rise up! Let us rise up against it for battle!”):

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

you will be greatly despised.

³The pride of your heart has deceived you,[#Isa 16:6]

you who live in the clefts of the rock,

whose dwelling is high;

you say in your heart,

“Who will bring me down to the ground?”

⁴Though you ascend high like the eagle,

and though you set your nest among the stars,

I will bring you down from there,

says the Lord .

⁵If thieves came to you,

if robbers by night—

how you have been destroyed!—

would they not steal only what they want?

If grape gatherers come to you,

would they not leave gleanings?

⁶How Esau will be searched for

as his hidden treasures are sought after!

⁷All your confederates have driven you to the border;

your allies have deceived and prevailed against you.

Those who eat your bread have set a trap for you.

You will not detect it.

⁸On that day, says the Lord ,

I will destroy the wise out of Edom,

and understanding out of Mount Esau.

⁹Your mighty men shall be shattered, O Teman,[#Ge 36:11; Am 1:12]

so that everyone from Mount Esau will be cut off.

Edom’s Violence Against Jacob

¹⁰For the slaughter and the violence done to your brother Jacob,[#Ge 27:41; Am 1:11]

shame shall cover you,

and you shall be cut off forever.

¹¹On the day that you stood aside,

on the day that strangers carried off his wealth,

and foreigners entered his gates

and cast lots on Jerusalem,

you also were like one of them.

¹²But you should not have gloated

on the day of your brother,

on the day of his misfortune;

you should not have rejoiced over the Judahites

on the day of their destruction;

you should not have boasted

on the day of distress.

¹³You should not have entered the gate of My people

on the day of their calamity.

You should not have gloated over the disaster of Judah

on the day of his calamity;

you should not have seized his wealth

on the day of his calamity.

¹⁴You should not have stood at the crossroads

to cut off his fugitives;

you should not have handed over his survivors,

on the day of distress.

The Day of the Lord Is Near

¹⁵For the day of the Lord is near

upon all the nations;

as you have done, it shall be done to you;

your deeds shall return on your own head.

¹⁶For as you have drunk on My holy mountain,[#Jer 49:12; Joel 3:17]

all the nations shall drink continually;

they shall drink and swallow

and shall be as though they had never been.

¹⁷But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance,

and it shall be holy;

and the house of Jacob shall possess

those who dispossessed them.

¹⁸The house of Jacob shall be a fire,[#Isa 5:24; Zec 12:6]

the house of Joseph a flame,

but the house of Esau stubble;

they shall burn them and consume them,

and there shall be no survivors

from the house of Esau,

for the Lord has spoken.

The Restoration of Israel

¹⁹Those of the Negev shall possess

Mount Esau,

and those of the Shephelah the land

of the Philistines.

They shall possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria,

and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

²⁰The exiles of this army of the Israelites,

shall inherit the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,

and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

shall inherit the cities of the Negev.

²¹Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion

to rule Mount Esau,

and the kingdom shall be the Lord ’s.