Obadiah 1

1 The vision of Obadiah.

Edom’s Certain Judgment

This is what the Lord God has said about Edom:  * 1 Gn 25:30; Ps 137:7; Is 21:11–12; 34:1–17; 63:1–6; Ezk 25:12–14; Am 1:11–12; Mal 1:2–5

We have heard a message from the  Lord;  * 1–4 Jr 49:14–16

an envoy has been sent  * 1 Is 18:2; 30:4 among the nations:

"Rise up,  * 1 Jr 6:4–5 and let’s go to war against her."  * 1 = Edom

2 Look, I will make you insignificant  * 2 Nm 24:18; Is 23:9

among the nations;

you will be deeply despised.

3 Your arrogant heart has deceived you,  * 3 Is 16:6

you who live in clefts of the rock  * 3 Or in Sela; probably = Petra,* 3 Probably Petra,* 3 2Kg 14:7; 2Ch 25:12

in your home on the heights,

who say to yourself,

"Who can bring me down to the ground? "  * 3 Is 14:13–15

4 Though you seem to soar  * 4 Or to build high like an eagle  * 4 Jb 20:6–7; Hab 2:9

and make your nest among the stars,  * 4 Is 14:12–15

even from there I will bring you down.

This is the  Lord’s declaration.

5 If thieves came to you,  * 5 Jr 49:9

if marauders by night —

how ravaged you would be! —

wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?

If grape harvesters came to you,

wouldn’t they leave a few grapes?  * 5 Lv 19:10; 25:5,11

6 How Esau will be pillaged,  * 6 Jr 49:10

his hidden treasures searched out!  * 6 Mal 1:2–3

7 Everyone who has a treaty with you  * 7 Ps 55:20; Jr 30:14; Am 1:9

will drive you to the border;

everyone at peace with you

will deceive and conquer you.

Those who eat your bread  * 7 Ps 41:9

will set  * 7 Some LXX mss, Sym, Tg, Vg; MT reads They will set your bread as a trap for you.

He will be unaware of it.  * 7 Jr 49:7

8 In that day —

this is the  Lord’s declaration —

will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom  * 8 Jb 4:1; 5:12–14

and those who understand

from the hill country of Esau?

9 Teman,  * 9 = a region or city in Edom,* 9 Gn 36:11; 1Ch 1:45; Jb 2:11; Hab 3:3 your warriors  * 9 Jr 49:22 will be terrified

so that everyone from the hill country of Esau

will be destroyed by slaughter.  * 9 Is 34:5–8; 63:1–3; Jr 49:7,20; Ezk 25:13; Am 1:12; Ob 5

Edom’s Sins against Judah

10 You will be covered with shame

and destroyed forever

because of violence done to your brother Jacob.  * 10 Ezk 25:12–14; Jl 3:19; Am 1:11

11 On the day you stood aloof,  * 11 Ps 83:5–6; 137:7; Am 1:6,9

on the day strangers captured his wealth,  * 11 Or forces

while foreigners entered his city gate

and cast lots for Jerusalem,  * 11 Jl 3:3; Nah 3:10

you were just like one of them.  * 11 2Ch 21:17; Ezk 35:10

12 Do not  * 12–14 Or You should not throughout vv. 12–14 gloat over your brother  * 12 Mc 4:11; 7:10

in the day of his calamity;

do not rejoice over the people of Judah  * 12 Ps 83:1–6; 137:7–9; Lm 4:21–22; Ezk 35:15; 36:5

in the day of their destruction;

do not boastfully mock  * 12 Lit not make your mouth big,* 12 Ps 31:18; Ezk 35:12

in the day of distress.  * 12 Gn 35:3; Ps 50:15; Jr 16:19

13 Do not enter my people’s city gate

in the day of their disaster.  * 13 Ezk 35:5

Yes, you — do not gloat over their misery

in the day of their disaster,

and do not appropriate their possessions  * 13 Ezk 35:10; 36:2–3

in the day of their disaster.

14 Do not stand at the crossroads  * 14 Hb obscure,* 14 Is 16:3–4

to cut off their fugitives,

and do not hand over their survivors

in the day of distress.

Judgment of the Nations

15 For the day of the  Lord* 15 Jl 1:15; 2:1,11,31; Am 5:18,20 is near,

against all the nations.  * 15 Is 13:6; Jl 3:14; Zph 1:7,14

As you have done,  * 15 Jr 50:29; 51:56 it will be done to you;

what you deserve will return on your own head.  * 15 Jr 50:15; Ezk 35:11

16 As you have drunk on my holy mountain,  * 16 Jr 49:12

so all the nations will drink continually.  * 16 Is 51:22–23

They will drink and gulp down

and be as though they had never been.

17 But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion,  * 17 Is 4:2–3

and it will be holy;  * 16–17 Is 66:20; Jl 2:32

the house of Jacob will dispossess  * 17 Is 14:1–2; Am 9:11–15

those who dispossessed them.  * 17 DSS, LXX, Syr, Vg, Tg; MT reads Jacob will possess its inheritance,* 17 Ezk 36:2–5

18 Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,  * 18 Is 5:24; 9:18–19; Am 1:12; Zch 12:6

and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,

but the house of Esau will be stubble;

Jacob  * 18 Lit they will set them on fire and consume Edom.  * 18 Lit them

Therefore no survivor will remain  * 18 Jr 11:23

of the house of Esau,

for the Lord has spoken.

Future Blessing for Israel

19 People from the Negev will possess  * 19 Is 11:14

the hill country of Esau;  * 19 Am 9:11–12

those from the Judean foothills will possess

the land of the Philistines.  * 19 Is 11:14

They  * 19 = The house of Jacob will possess

the territories of Ephraim and Samaria,  * 19 Jr 31:5; 32:44

while Benjamin will possess Gilead.

20 The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah  * 20 Or of this host of the Israelites; Hb obscure

and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath  * 20 1Kg 17:9–10; Lk 4:26

as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

will possess the cities of the Negev.  * 20 Jr 32:44; 33:13

21 Saviors  * 21 Or Those who have been delivered will ascend Mount Zion  * 21 Neh 9:27; Is 4:5; 18:7; 24:23; Dn 2:44; Mc 4:7

to rule over the hill country of Esau,

and the kingdom will be the  Lord’s.  * 21 Ps 22:28; 47:7–9; 67:4; Zch 14:9