1The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against it for battle!"H2377H5662H559H136H3069H123H8085H8052H3068H6735H7971H1471H6965H6965H44212I will surely make you least among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.H5414H6996H1471H3966H9593Your proud heart has deceived you, you that live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is in the heights. You say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?"H2087H3820H5377H7931H2288H5553H3427H4791H559H3820H3381H7764Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, says the LORD.H1361H5404H7760H7064H3556H3381H5002H3068
Pillage and Slaughter Will Repay Edom’s Cruelty
5If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night—how you have been destroyed!—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?H1590H935H7703H3915H1820H1589H1767H1219H935H7604H59556How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures searched out!H6215H2664H4710H11587All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; those who ate your bread have set a trap for you—there is no understanding of it.H582H1285H7971H1366H582H7965H5377H3201H3899H7760H4204H83948On that day, says the LORD, I will destroy the wise out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau.H3117H5002H3068H6H2450H123H8394H2022H62159Your warriors shall be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone from Mount Esau will be cut off.H1368H8487H2865H376H2022H6215H3772H6993
Edom Mistreated His Brother
10For the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.H2555H251H3290H955H3680H3772H576911On the day that you stood aside, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you too were like one of them.H3117H5975H3117H2114H7617H2428H5237H935H8179H3032H1486H3389H25912But you should not have gloated over your brother on the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah on the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted on the day of distress.H7200H3117H251H3117H5235H8055H1121H3063H3117H6H6310H1431H3117H686913You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their calamity; you should not have joined in the gloating over Judah's disaster on the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods on the day of his calamity.H935H8179H5971H3117H343H7200H7451H3117H343H7971H2428H3117H34314You should not have stood at the crossings to cut off his fugitives; you should not have handed over his survivors on the day of distress.H5975H6563H3772H6412H5462H8300H3117H686915For the day of the LORD is near against all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.H3117H3068H7138H1471H6213H6213H1576H7725H721816For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, all the nations around you shall drink; they shall drink and gulp down, and shall be as though they had never been.H8354H6944H2022H1471H8354H8548H8354H3886H3808
Israel’s Final Triumph
17But on Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall take possession of those who dispossessed them.H2022H6726H6413H6944H1004H3290H3423H418018The house of Jacob shall be a fire, 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 of the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken.H1004H3290H784H1004H3130H3852H1004H6215H7179H1814H398H8300H1004H6215H3068H169619Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.H5045H3423H2022H6215H8219H6430H3423H7704H669H7704H8111H1144H156820The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the towns of the Negeb.H1546H2426H1121H3478H3669H6886H1546H3389H5614H3423H5892H504521Those who have been saved shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.H3467H5927H2022H6726H8199H2022H6215H4410H3068
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