Obadiah 1
1 The vision
of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God to Idumea; I have heard a report from the
Lord, and he has sent forth a message to the nations.
2 Arise ye, and let us rise up against
her to war. 3 Behold, I have made thee
small among the Gentiles: thou art greatly dishonoured. The pride of thine
heart has elated thee, dwelling as thou dost in the
holes of the rocks, as one that exalts his
habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?
4 If thou shouldest mount up as the
eagle, and if thou shouldest make thy nest among the stars, thence will I
bring thee down, saith the Lord. 5 If
thieves came in to thee, or robbers by night, where wouldest thou have been
cast away? would they not have stolen just enough for
themselves? and if grape-gatherers went in to thee, would they not leave a
gleaning?
6 How has Esau been searched out, and
how have his hidden things been detected?
7 They sent thee to thy coasts: all
the men of thy covenant have withstood thee; thine allies have prevailed
against thee, they have set snares under thee: they have no understanding.
8 In that day, saith the Lord, I will
destroy the wise men out of Idumea, and understanding out of the mount of
Esau. 9 And thy warriors from Thæman
shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.
10 Because of the slaughter and the
sin committed against thy brother Jacob, shame shall
cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
11 From the day that thou stoodest in
opposition to him, in the days when foreigners were
taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots
on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them.
12 And
aOr, look not thou, etc.thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of
strangers; nor shouldest thou have rejoiced against the children of Juda in
the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have boasted in the day
of their affliction.
13 Neither shouldest thou have gone
into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet shouldest
thou have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor
shouldest thou have attacked their host in the day of their perishing.
14 Neither shouldest thou have stood
at the opening of their passages, to destroy utterly those of them that were
escaping; neither shouldest thou have shut up his fugitives in the day of
affliction.
15 For the day of the Lord is near
upon all the Gentiles: as thou hast done, so shall it be
done to thee: thy recompense shall be returned on
thine own head.
16 For as thou hast drunk upon my
holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink wine;
they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not.
17 But on mount Sion there shall be
deliverance, and there shall be a sanctuary; and the house of Jacob shall take
for an inheritance those that took them for an inheritance.
18 And the house of Jacob shall be
fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau
shall be for stubble; and
Israel shall flame forth against them, and shall
devour them, and there shall not be a corn-field
left to the house of Esau; because the Lord has
spoken. 19 And they
that dwell in the
bThe Gr. is the Hebrew word.south shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they in the plain the Philistines:
and they shall inherit the mount of Ephraim, and the plain of Samaria, and
Benjamin, and the land of Galaad.
20 And this
shall be the domain of the captivity of the children
of Israel, the land of the Chananites as far as Sarepta; and the captives of
Jerusalem shall inherit as far as Ephratha; they
shall inherit the cities of the south.
21 And they that escape shall come up
from mount Sion, to take vengeance on the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall
be the Lord's.