Obadias 1

1 The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord*1:1 The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai." Yahweh*1:1 "Yahweh" is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations. says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle. 2 Behold,*1:2 "Behold", from "הִנֵּה", means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised. 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’ 4 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh. 5 "If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes? 6 How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out! 7 All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him."

8 "Won’t I in that day", says Yahweh, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau? 9 Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter. 10 For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them. 12 But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress. 13 Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity. 14 Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress. 15 For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head. 16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been. 17 But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions. 18 The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau." Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

19 Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead. 20 The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev. 21 Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.

Ka Whakawhiua e Ihowā a Ēroma

1 Ko te kite a Opāria.

Ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā, mō Ēroma:

Kua tae mai he kōrero i a Ihowā,

kua oti anō he karere te unga ki ngā tauiwi, hei mea:

"Whakatika, kia whakatika atu hoki tātou ki a ia ki te whawhai!"

2 "Nanā, kua oti koe te mea e ahau kia iti i roto i ngā tauiwi;

nui atu te whakahāwea ki a koe.

3 Kua oti koe te tinihanga e te whakapehapeha o tōu ngākau,

e koe e noho nā i ngā kapiti o te kāmaka,

kei runga nā tōna nohoanga.

E mea nā i roto i tōna ngākau,

‘Ko wai hei whakahoki iho i ahau ki raro ki te whenua?’

4 Ahakoa i rite tōu kakenga ki tō te ēkara,

ahakoa i hangā e koe tōu kōhanga ki ngā whetū,

ka whakahokia iho koe e ahau i reira,"

e ai tā Ihowā.

5 "Me i tae he kaitāhae ki a koe,

he kaipāhua rānei i te pō –

taukiri e, tōu ngaromanga!

E kore rānei rātou e tāhae,

kia maha rā anō ngā mea mā rātou?

Me i tae he kaiwhawhaki karepe ki a koe,

e kore rānei ētahi karepe e whakatoea e rātou?

6 Taukiri e, te rapunga atu o ngā mea a Ēhau,

te kimihanga o āna mea ngaro!

7 Ko ngā tāngata katoa o tāu kawenata,

kua riro koe i a rātou, tae rawa ki te rohe;

ko ngā tāngata i mau nei tā rātou rongo ki a koe,

kua tinihanga ki a koe, ā, taea ana koe e rātou;

ko te hunga i kai i tāu taro kua takoto i a rātou he māhanga ki raro i a koe –

kāhore he mātauranga i a ia.

8 "He teka ianei," e ai tā Ihowā,

"ka kore i ahau i taua rā ngā tāngata whakaaro nui i roto i Ēroma,

me te mātauranga o te maunga o Ēhau?

9 Ā, ka wehi ōu mārohirohi, e Temana,

he mea e hātepea atu ai ngā tāngata katoa o te maunga o Ēhau, tukituki rawa."

Ngā Take e Whakawhiua ai a Ēroma

10 "Ka taupokina koe e te whakamā

hei utu mō te mahi tutū ki tōu teina, ki a Hākopa,

ka hātepea atu anō koe ā ake ake.

11 I te rā i tū hāngai mai ai koe,

i te rā i whakaraua ai ōna rawa e ngā tautāngata,

i tapoko ai ngā tāngata iwi kē ki ōna kūwaha,

i kōkiri nui ai mō Hiruhārama,

i rite rawa anō koe ki tētahi o rātou.

12 Otiia, kaua koe e titiro ki te rā o tōu teina,

i te rā o tōna aituā,

kaua hoki koe e koa ki ngā tama a Hūrā

i te rā o tō rātou whakangaromanga;

kaua hoki e whakanuia tōu māngai

i te rā o te raru.

13 Kaua e tomo ki roto ki te kūwaha o tāku iwi

i te rā o tō rātou aituā;

āe rā, kaua koe e mātakitaki ki tō rātou matenga

i te rā o tō rātou aituā,

kaua anō hoki koutou e pā ringaringa ki ō rātou rawa

i te rā o tō rātou raru.

14 Ā, kaua koe e tū ki te pekanga o te ara

ki te hātepe i ōna mōrehu e mawhiti;

kaua hoki e tukua ōna mōrehu

i te rā o te raru."

Ka Whakawātia e te Atua ngā Iwi Katoa

15 "Kua tata hoki te rā o Ihowā ki ngā tauiwi katoa.

Ka rite ki tāu i mea ai ka meatia ki a koe;

ka hoki tāu utu ki runga ki tōu māhunga.

16 Ka rite hoki ki tā koutou inumanga i runga i tōku maunga tapu;

ka pēnā anō te inu a ngā tauiwi katoa ā ake nei, ake nei;

inā, ka inu rātou, ka horomia anō e rātou,

ā, me te mea i kore rātou."

Te Wikitōria Whakamutunga a Īharaira

17 "Otiia, tērā anō ngā mea ka mawhiti i Maunga Hiona,

ā, ka tapu tērā;

ā, ka riro ō rātou wāhi i te whare o Hākopa.

18 Ā hei ahi te whare o Hākopa,

hei mura anō te whare o Hōhepa,

hei kakau wīti hoki te whare o Ēhau.

Ka ngiha rātou i roto i a rātou, ā, pau ake,

kāhore hoki he mōrehu o te whare o Ēhau;

nā Ihowā nei hoki te kupu."

19 Nā, ka riro te maunga o Ēhau i te hunga o te tonga;

me ngā Pirihitini i te hunga o te mānia;

ka riro anō i a rātou ngā māra a Ēparaima me ngā māra o Hamaria;

mō Pineamine hoki a Kireara.

20 Nā, ko ngā whakarau o tēnei ope,

o ngā tama a Īharaira, ko ērā i roto i ngā Kanaani,

ka riro i a rātou tae noa ki Harepata;

ā, ko ngā whakarau o Hiruhārama, ko ērā i Teparara,

ka riro i a rātou ngā pā o te tonga.

21 Ā, ka tae ake he kaiwhakaora ki Maunga Hiona

hei whakawā mō te maunga o Ēhau;

ā, ka riro i a Ihowā te kīngitanga.