1{1:1} The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD
concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the
LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise
ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. {1:2} Behold, I
have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly
despised.
{1:3} The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou
that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation [is]
high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the
ground? {1:4} Though thou exalt [thyself] as the eagle, and
though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring
thee down, saith the LORD. {1:5} If thieves came to thee, if
robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not
have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came
to thee, would they not leave [some] grapes? {1:6} How are
[the things] of Esau searched out! [how] are his hidden
things sought up! {1:7} All the men of thy confederacy
have brought thee [even] to the border: the men that were at
peace with thee have deceived thee, [and] prevailed against
thee; [they that eat] thy bread have laid a wound under thee:
[there is] none understanding in him. {1:8} Shall I not in
that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise [men] out
of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
{1:9} And thy mighty [men,] O Teman, shall be dismayed,
to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut
off by slaughter.
{1:10} For [thy] violence against thy brother Jacob shame
shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. {1:11} In
the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that
the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners
entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even
thou [wast] as one of them. {1:12} But thou shouldest not
have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he
became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over
the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither
shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
{1:13} Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my
people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not
have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity,
nor have laid [hands] on their substance in the day of their
calamity; {1:14} Neither shouldest thou have stood in the
crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither
shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did
remain in the day of distress. {1:15} For the day of the
LORD [is] near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it
shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine
own head. {1:16} For as ye have drunk upon my holy
mountain, [so] shall all the heathen drink continually, yea,
they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they
shall be as though they had not been.
{1:17} But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and
there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess
their possessions. {1:18} And the house of Jacob shall be a
fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau
for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them;
and there shall not be [any] remaining of the house of Esau;
for the LORD hath spoken [it. ]{1:19} And [they of] the
south shall possess the mount of Esau; and [they of] the
plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of
Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin [shall
possess] Gilead. {1:20} And the captivity of this host of the
children of Israel [shall possess] that of the Canaanites,
[even] unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which
[is] in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. {1:21}
And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount
of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’S.