CHAPTER 1

¹The vision of Obadiah. Thus said the LORD concerning Edom:

                 A report we have heard from the LORD,

                     and an envoy among the nations was sent.

                         Rise and let us rise against her for battle.

                 ²Look, I have made you last among the nations,

                     you are utterly spurned.

                 ³Your heart’s arrogance deceived you

                     who dwell in the clefts of the rock,

                         in your abode on high,

                 who say in your heart,

                     “Who can bring me down to the ground?”

                 ⁴Should you go high as the eagle

                     and should you nest among the stars,

                         from there I would bring you down, said the LORD.

                 ⁵Should thieves come to you,

                     plunderers in the night,

                 how you would be destroyed!

                     They would take but what they needed.

                 Should grape harvesters come to you,

                     would they not leave gleanings?

                 ⁶How Esau has been stripped,

                     his hidden places laid bare!

                 ⁷To the border they have sent you off,

                     all the men allied with you.

                 They deceived you, prevailed against you,

                     all the men in league with you.

                 Who ate bread at your table

                     have laid a trap beneath you.

                         There is no discerning in him.

                 ⁸Why, on that day, said the LORD:

                     I shall destroy the sages from Edom

                         and discerning from Esau’s mountain.

                 ⁹And your survivors shall be terror-stricken, Teman,

                     that every man be cut off from Esau’s mountain.

                 ¹⁰For the slaughter, for the outrage against your brother Jacob,

                     shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.

                 ¹¹On the day you stood aloof,

                     on the day strangers seized his wealth

                 and aliens entered his gates,

                     and for Jerusalem they cast lots,

                         and you were as one of them.

                 ¹²And do not gloat on your brother’s day,

                     on the day of his downfall.

                 And do not rejoice over the Judahites

                     on the day of their destruction.

                 And do not boast

                     on the day of distress.

                 ¹³Do not enter My people’s gate

                     on the day of their disaster.

                 Do not gloat on your part

                     over the evil that befalls him on the day of his disaster.

                 ¹⁴And do not stand at the crossroads

                     to cut off his fugitives

                 and do not hand over his survivors

                     on the day of distress.

                 ¹⁵For near is the day of the LORD

                     against all the nations.

                 As you have done, it shall be done to you.

                     Your requital shall come back on your head.

                 ¹⁶For as you drank on My holy mountain,

                     all the nations shall drink ever more.

                 They shall drink and babble

                     and be as though they never had been.

                 ¹⁷But on Mount Zion there shall be a remnant,

                     and it shall be sacrosanct,

                         and the house of Jacob shall dispossess their dispossessors.

                 ¹⁸And the house of Jacob shall be a fire

                     and the house of Joseph a flame,

                 and the house of Esau shall be straw,

                     and they shall ignite them and consume them.

                 And the house of Esau shall have no survivor,

                     for the LORD has spoken.

¹⁹And they shall take hold of Esau’s mountain and the lowland of the Philistines and the field of Ephraim and the field of Samaria, and Benjamin—Gilead. ²⁰And this force of exiles of the Israelites that is among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath and the exiles of Jerusalem who are at Sepharad—they shall take hold of the Negeb towns. ²¹And rescuers shall go up Mount Zion to exact judgment against Esau’s mountain, and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.