1:1  The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom-- We have heard a report from the LORD, And an envoy has moved among the nations saying, " Arise and let us go against her for battle"--

1:2  "Behold, I will make you small among the nations;You have become greatly despised.

1:3  "The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, You who live in the clefts of the rock,In the loftiness of your dwelling place, Who say in your heart,' Who will bring me down to earth?'

1:4   "Though you build high like the eagle, Though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down," declares the LORD.

1:5  "If thieves came to you, If robbers by night-- O how you will receive ruin!-- Would they not steal only until they had enough? If grape gatherers came to you, Would they not leave some gleanings?

1:6   "O how Esau will suffer ruin, And his hidden treasures searched out!

1:7  "All the men allied with you Will send you forth to the border, And the men at peace with you Will deceive you and overpower you They who eat your bread Will set an ambush for you (There exists no understanding in him.)

1:8  "Will I not on that day," declares the LORD, " Destroy wise men from Edom And understanding from the mountain of Esau?

1:9   "Then your mighty men will suffer dismay, O Teman, So that everyone may feel themselves cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

1:10  "Because of violence to your brother Jacob, You will cover yourself with shame, And people will cut you off forever.

1:11  "On the day that you stood aloof, On the day that strangers carried off his wealth, And foreigners entered his gate And cast lots for Jerusalem-- You too joined yourself to them.

1:12   " Do not gloat over your brother's day, The day of his misfortune And do not rejoice over the sons of Judah In the day of their destruction; Yes, do not boast In the day of their distress.

1:13   "Do not enter the gate of My people In the day of their disaster Yes, you, do not gloat over their calamity In the day of their disaster And do not loot their wealth In the day of their disaster.

1:14   "Do not stand at the fork of the road To cut down their fugitives; And do not imprison their survivors In the day of their distress.

1:15   "For the day of the LORD draws near on all the nations As you have done, you will receive Your dealings will return on your own head.

1:16  "Because just as you drank on My holy mountain, All the nations will drink continually. They will drink and swallow And become as if they had never existed.

1:17   "But on Mount Zion there will stand those who escape, And it will become holy And the house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

1:18  "Then the house of Jacob will resemble a fire And the house of Joseph a flame; But the house of Esau will become as stubble And they will set them on fire and consume them, So that no survivor of the house of Esau will exist," For the LORD has spoken.

1:19  Then those of the Negev will possess the mountain of Esau, And those of the Shephelah the Philistine plain; Also, possess the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria, And Benjamin will possess Gilead.

1:20  And the exiles of this host of the sons of Israel, Who dwell among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, And the exiles of Jerusalem who live in Sepharad Will possess the cities of the Negev.

1:21  The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion To judge the mountain of Esau, And the kingdom will become the LORD'S.