The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Obadiah 01
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.
2 Behold,§ 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’tthey 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, inthe 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
king- dom will be Yahweh’s.