Obadiah

New American Standard Bible

Edom Will Be Humbled

¹The vision of Obadiah.

This is what the Lord ^[a]God says concerning ^(A)Edom—

^(B)We have heard a report from the Lord,
And a ^(C)messenger has been sent among the nations saying,
“^(D)Arise, and let’s go up against her for battle”—
²“Behold, I will make you ^(E)small among the nations;
You are greatly despised.
³The ^(F)arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
The one who lives in the clefts of ^[b]the ^(G)rock,
On the height of his dwelling place,
Who says in his heart,
‘^(H)Who will bring me down to earth?’
⁴Though you ^(I)make your home high like the eagle,
Though you set your nest among the ^(J)stars,
From there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.
⁵“If ^(K)thieves came to you,
If ^[c]robbers by night—
Oh how you will be ruined!—
Would they not steal only ^[d]until they had enough?
If grape-pickers came to you,
^(L)Would they not leave some gleanings?
⁶Oh how Esau will be ^(M)searched,
And his hidden treasures searched out!
⁷All the ^(N)people ^[e]allied with you
Will send you to the border,
And the people at peace with you
Will deceive you and overpower you.
They who eat your ^(O)bread
Will set an ambush for you.
(There is ^(P)no understanding ^[f]in him.)
⁸Will I not on that day,” declares the Lord,
“^(Q)Eliminate wise men from Edom,
And understanding from the mountain of Esau?
⁹Then your ^(R)warriors will be filled with terror, ^(S)Teman,
So that everyone will be ^(T)eliminated from the mountain of Esau by murder.

¹⁰“Because of ^(U)violence to your brother Jacob,
Shame will cover you,
^(V)And you will be eliminated forever.
¹¹On the day that you ^(W)stood aloof,
On the day that strangers carried off his wealth,
And foreigners entered his gate
And ^(X)cast lots for Jerusalem—
^(Y)You too were as one of them.
¹²^(Z)Do not ^[g]gloat over your brother’s day,
The day of his misfortune.
And ^(AA)do not rejoice over the sons of Judah
On the day of their destruction;
Yes, ^(AB)do not ^[h]boast
On the day of their distress.
¹³Do not enter the gate of My people
On the ^(AC)day of their disaster.
You indeed, do not ^[i]gloat over their catastrophe
On the day of their disaster.
And do not ^(AD)lay a hand on their wealth
On the day of their disaster.
¹⁴Do not ^(AE)stand at the crossroads
To eliminate their survivors;
And do not hand over their refugees
On the day of their distress.

The Day of the Lord and the Future

¹⁵“For the ^(AF)day of the Lord is near for all the nations.
^(AG)Just as you have done, it will be done to you.
Your ^(AH)dealings will return on your own head.
¹⁶For just as you ^(AI)drank on ^(AJ)My holy mountain,
All the nations ^(AK)will drink continually.
They will drink ^[j]to the last drop,
And become as if they had never existed.
¹⁷But on Mount ^(AL)Zion there will be those who escape,
And it will be holy.
And the house of Jacob will ^[k]^(AM)possess their ^[l]property.
¹⁸Then the house of Jacob will be a ^(AN)fire,
And the house of Joseph a flame;
But the house of Esau will be like stubble.
And they will set ^[m]them on fire and consume ^[n]them,
So that there will be ^(AO)no survivor of the house of Esau,”
For the Lord has spoken.
¹⁹Then those of the ^[o]Negev will ^[p]^(AP)possess the mountain of Esau,
And those of the ^[q]Shephelah the ^(AQ)Philistine plain;
Also, ^(AR)they will ^[r]possess the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria,
And Benjamin the territory of Gilead.
²⁰And the exiles of this army of the sons of Israel,
Who are among the Canaanites as far as ^(AS)Zarephath,
And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad,
Will ^[s]possess the ^(AT)cities of the Negev.
²¹^[t]The ^(AU)deliverers will ascend Mount Zion
To judge the mountain of Esau,
And the ^(AV)kingdom will be the Lord’s.