Obadiah 5-14

Common English Bible

⁵ If thieves approach you,
        if robbers by night—how you’ve been devastated!—
        wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?
    If those who gather grapes came to you,
        wouldn’t they leave some grapes?
⁶ How Esau has been looted,
        his treasures taken away!
⁷ All those who were your allies
        have driven you to the border.
    Those who were on your side tricked you
        and triumphed over you.
They are setting your own bread as a trap under you,^[a]
        but you don’t see it coming.
⁸ Won’t I on that day, says the Lord,
        destroy the wise from Edom
        and understanding from Mount Esau?
⁹ Your warriors will be shattered, Teman,
        and everyone from Mount Esau will be eliminated.

¹⁰ Because of the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob,
        shame will cover you,
        and you will be destroyed forever.
¹¹ You stood nearby,
        strangers carried off his wealth,
    and foreigners entered his gates
        and cast lots for Jerusalem;
    you too were like one of them.
¹² But you should have taken no pleasure over your brother
        on the day of his misery;
    you shouldn’t have rejoiced over the people of Judah
        on the day of their devastation;
    you shouldn’t have bragged
        on their day of hardship.
¹³ You shouldn’t have entered the gate of my people
        on the day of their defeat;
    you shouldn’t have even looked on his suffering
        on the day of his disaster;
    you shouldn’t have stolen his possessions
        on the day of his distress.
¹⁴ You shouldn’t have waited on the roads
        to destroy his escapees;
    you shouldn’t have handed over his survivors
        on the day of defeat.