Obadiah

Christian Standard Bible

We have heard a message from the Lord;^(B)
an envoy has been sent^(C) among the nations:
“Rise up,^(D) and let’s go to war against her.”^[a]
2 Look, I will make you insignificant^(E)
among the nations;
you will be deeply despised.
³ Your arrogant heart has deceived you,^(F)
you who live in clefts of the rock^[b][c](G)
in your home on the heights,
who say to yourself,
“Who can bring me down to the ground?” ^(H)
4 Though you seem to soar^[d] like an eagle^(I)
and make your nest among the stars,^(J)
even from there I will bring you down.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

¹⁰ You will be covered with shame
and destroyed forever
because of violence done to your brother Jacob.^(V)
11 On the day you stood aloof,^(W)
on the day strangers captured his wealth,^[g]
while foreigners entered his city gate
and cast lots for Jerusalem,^(X)
you were just like one of them.^(Y)
12 Do not^[h] gloat over your brother^(Z)
in the day of his calamity;
do not rejoice over the people of Judah^(AA)
in the day of their destruction;
do not boastfully mock^[i](AB)
in the day of distress.^(AC)
13 Do not enter my people’s city gate
in the day of their disaster.^(AD)
Yes, you—do not gloat over their misery
in the day of their disaster,
and do not appropriate their possessions^(AE)
in the day of their disaster.
¹⁴ Do not stand at the crossroads^[j](AF)
to cut off their fugitives,
and do not hand over their survivors
in the day of distress.

¹⁵ For the day of the Lord^(AG) is near,
against all the nations.^(AH)
As you have done,^(AI) it will be done to you;
what you deserve will return on your own head.^(AJ)
16 As you have drunk on my holy mountain,^(AK)
so all the nations will drink continually.^(AL)
They will drink and gulp down
and be as though they had never been.
¹⁷ But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion,^(AM)
and it will be holy;^(AN)
the house of Jacob will dispossess^(AO)
those who dispossessed them.^[k](AP)
18 Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,^(AQ)
and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,
but the house of Esau will be stubble;
Jacob^[l] will set them on fire and consume Edom.^[m]
Therefore no survivor will remain^(AR)
of the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.

¹⁹ People from the Negev will possess^(AS)
the hill country of Esau;^(AT)
those from the Judean foothills will possess
the land of the Philistines.^(AU)
They^[n] will possess
the territories of Ephraim and Samaria,^(AV)
while Benjamin will possess Gilead.
²⁰ The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah^[o]
and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath^(AW)
as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the cities of the Negev.^(AX)
21 Saviors^[p] will ascend Mount Zion^(AY)
to rule over the hill country of Esau,
and the kingdom will be the Lord’s.^(AZ)