The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning
Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador
is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up
against her in battle.
Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art
greatly despised.
The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that
dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high;
that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the
ground?
Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set
thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith
the LORD.
If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou
cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if
the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some
grapes?
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden
things sought up!
All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the
border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived
thee, and prevailed against thee; that they eat thy bread have
laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.
Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise
men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end
that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by
slaughter.
For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover
thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day
that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and
foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon
Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother
in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou
have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their
destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the
day of distress.
Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in
the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked
on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have
laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off
those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have
delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of
distress.
For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou
hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return
upon thine own head.
For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the
heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they
shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not
been.
But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be
holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their
possessions.
And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of
Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they
shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be
any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken
it.
And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and
they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the
fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin
shall possess Gilead.
And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall
possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the
captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess
the cities of the south.
And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of
Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.