| Chapter 1 |
| 1 | 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. |
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2 | Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen:
thou art greatly despised. |
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3 | 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? |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | 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? |
| 6 | How are the things of Esau searched out! how
are his hidden things sought up! |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | 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? |
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9 | 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. |
| 10 | For thy violence against thy brother Jacob
shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. |
| 11 | 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. |
| 12 | 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. |
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13 | 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; |
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14 | 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. |
| 15
| 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. |
| 16
| 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. |
| 17 | But upon
mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of
Jacob shall possess their possessions. |
| 18 | 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. |
| 19 | 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. |
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20 | 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. |
| 21 | And saviours shall come up on
mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's. |
