Obadiah 1

The Coming Judgment on Edom

1 The vision of Obadiah.

Thus says the Lord God*Is. 21:11; Ezek. 25:12; Joel 3:19; Mal. 1:3concerning Edom

*Jer. 49:14–16; Obad. 1–4(We have heard a report from the Lord,

And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying,

"Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle"):

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

You shall be greatly despised.

3 The *Is. 16:6; Jer. 49:16pride of your heart has deceived you,

You who dwell in the clefts of the rock,

Whose habitation is high;

*Is. 14:13–15; Rev. 18:7You who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

4 *Job 20:6Though you ascend as high as the eagle,

And though you *Hab. 2:9; Mal. 1:4set your nest among the stars,

From there I will bring you down," says the Lord.

5 "If *Jer. 49:9thieves had come to you,

If robbers by night—

Oh, how you will be cut off!—

Would they not have stolen till they had enough?

If grape-gatherers had come to you,

*Deut. 24:21Would they not have left some gleanings?

6 "Oh, how Esau shall be searched out!

How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!

7 All the men in your confederacy

Shall force you to the border;

*Jer. 38:22The men at peace with you

Shall deceive you and prevail against you.

Thosewhoeat your bread shall lay a trap for you.

*Is. 19:11; Jer. 49:7No one is aware of it.

8 "Will*(Job 5:12–14); Is. 29:14 I not in that day," says the Lord,

"Even destroy the wise men from Edom,

And understanding from the mountains of Esau?

9 Then your *Ps. 76:5mighty men, O *Gen. 36:11; 1 Chr. 1:45; Job 2:11; Jer. 49:7Teman, shall be dismayed,

To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau

May be cut off by slaughter.

Edom Mistreated His Brother

10 "For *Gen. 27:41; Ezek. 25:12; Amos 1:11violence against your brother Jacob,

Shame shall cover you,

And *Ezek. 35:9; Joel 3:19you shall be cut off forever.

11 In the day that you *Ps. 83:5–8; Amos 1:6, 9stood on the other side—

In the day that strangers carried captive his forces,

When foreigners entered his gates

And *Joel 3:3; Nah. 3:10cast lots for Jerusalem—

Even you were as one of them.

12 "But you should not have *Mic. 4:11; 7:10gazed on the day of your brother

In the day of his captivity;

Nor should you have *(Prov. 17:5); Ezek. 35:15; 36:5rejoiced over the children of Judah

In the day of their destruction;

Nor should you have spoken proudly

In the day of distress.

13 You should not have entered the gate of My people

In the day of their calamity.

Indeed, you should not have gazed on their affliction

In the day of their calamity,

Nor laid hands on their substance

In the day of their calamity.

14 You should not have stood at the crossroads

To cut off those among them who escaped;

Nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained

In the day of distress.

15 "For*Ezek. 30:3; (Joel 1:15; 2:1, 11, 31; Amos 5:18, 20) the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near;

*Jer. 50:29; 51:56; Hab. 2:8As you have done, it shall be done to you;

Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.

16 *Joel 3:17For as you drank on My holy mountain,

So shall all the nations drink continually;

Yes, they shall drink, and swallow,

And they shall be as though they had never been.

Israel’s Final Triumph

17 "But on Mount Zion there *Is. 14:1, 2; Joel 2:32; Amos 9:8shall be deliverance,

And there shall be holiness;

The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,

And the house of Joseph *Is. 5:24; 9:18, 19; Zech. 12:6a flame;

But the house of Esau shallbe stubble;

They shall kindle them and devour them,

And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,"

For the Lord has spoken.

19 The South *Is. 11:14; Amos 9:12shall possess the mountains of Esau,

*Zeph. 2:7And the Lowland shall possess Philistia.

They shall possess the fields of Ephraim

And the fields of Samaria.

Benjamin shallpossess Gilead.

20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel

Shallpossesstheland of the Canaanites

As *1 Kin. 17:9; Luke 4:26far as Zarephath.

The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

*Jer. 32:44Shall possess the cities of the South.

21 Then *(James 5:20)saviors shall come to Mount Zion

To judge the mountains of Esau,

And the *Ps. 22:28; (Dan. 2:44; 7:14; Zech. 14:9; Rev. 11:15)kingdom shall be the Lord’s.