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.