Obadiah, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh 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.
{1:2} Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly
despised. {1:3} 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?' {1:4} 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. {1:5} "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? {1:6} How Esau
will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out! {1:7} 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."
{1:8} "Won't I in that day," says Yahweh, "destroy the wise men out
of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau? {1:9} Your
mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be
cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter. {1:10} For the
violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you
will be cut off forever. {1:11} 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. {1:12} 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. {1:13} 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. {1:14} 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. {1:15} 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. {1:16} For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will
all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down,
and will be as though they had not been. {1:17} But in Mount Zion,
there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of
Jacob will possess their possessions. {1:18} 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.
{1:19} 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.
{1:20} 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. {1:21} Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains
of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh's.
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