Edom Will Be Brought Low and Israel
Triumph
1*The vision of Obadi'ah.
Thus says the Lord GOD concerning
E'dom:
We have heard tidings from the
LORD,
and a messenger has been sent among the
nations:
“Rise up! let us rise against her for
battle!”
2Behold, I will make you small among the
nations,
you shall be utterly despised.
3The pride of your heart has deceived
you,
you who live in the clefts of the
rock,
awhose dwelling is high,
who say in your heart,
“Who will bring me down to the
ground?”
4Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
though your nest is set among the
stars,
from there I will bring you down,
says the LORD.
5If thieves came to you,
if plunderers by night—
how you have been destroyed!—
would they not steal only enough for
themselves?
If grape gatherers came to you,
would they not leave gleanings?
6How Esau has been pillaged,
his treasures sought out!
7All your allies have deceived you,
they have driven you to the border;
your confederates have prevailed against
you;
your trusted friends have set a trap under
you—
there is no understanding of it.
8Will I not on that day, says the
LORD,
destroy the wise men out of E'dom,
and understanding out of Mount Esau?
9And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O
Te'man,
so that every man from Mount Esau will be
cut off by slaughter.
10For the violence done to your brother
Jacob,
shame shall cover you,
and you shall be cut off for ever.
11On the day that you stood aloof,
on the day that strangers carried off his
wealth,
and foreigners entered his gates
and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.
12But you should not have gloated over the
day of your brother
in the day of his misfortune;
you should not have rejoiced over the people
of Judah
in the day of their ruin;
you should not have boasted
in the day of distress.
13You should not have entered the gate of my
people
in the day of his calamity;
you should not have gloated over his
disaster
in the day of his calamity;
you should not have looted his goods
in the day of his calamity.
14You should not have stood at the parting of
the ways
to cut off his fugitives;
you should not have delivered up his
survivors
in the day of distress.
15For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations.
As you have done, it shall be done to
you,
your deeds shall return on your own
head.
16For as you have drunk upon my holy
mountain,
all the nations round about shall
drink;
they shall drink, and stagger,
band shall be as though they had not
been.
17But in Mount Zion there shall be those that
escape,
and it shall be holy;
and the house of Jacob shall possess their
own possessions.
18The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
and the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
and there shall be no survivor to the house
of Esau;
for the LORD
has spoken.
19Those of the Neg'eb shall possess Mount
Esau,
and those of the Shephe'lah the land of the
Philis'tines;
they shall possess the land of E'phraim and
the land of Samar'ia
and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20The exiles in Ha'lah
c who are of
the people of Israel
shall possess
d Phoeni'cia as
far as Zar'ephath;and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in
Sephar'ad
shall possess the cities of the
Neg'eb.
21Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion
to rule Mount Esau;
and the kingdom shall be the
LORD’s.