THE BOOK OF
OBADIAH
CHAPTER 1 8 Will I not on that day, says
1 The vision of Obadiah. the LORD, destroy the wise
Thus saith the Lord GOD con - men out of Edom, and under -
cerning Edom; We have heard standing out of Mount Esau?
a rumour from the LORD, and 9 And your mighty men shall
an ambassador is sent among be dismayed, O Teman, so
the heathen, Arise ye, and let that every man from Mount
us rise up against her in bat - Esau will be cut off by
tle. slaughter.
2 Behold, I will make you 10 For the violence done to
small among the nations, you your brother Jacob, shame
shall be utterly despised. shall cover you, and you shall
3 The pride of your heart has be cut off for ever.
deceived you, you who live in 11 On the day that you
the clefts of the rock, whose stood aloof, on the day that
dwelling is high, who say in strangers carried off his
your heart, "Who will bring wealth, and foreigners en -
me down to the ground?" tered his gates and cast lots
4 Though you soar aloft like for Jerusalem, you were like
the eagle, though your nest one of them.
is set among the stars, 12 But you should not have
thence I will bring you down, gloated over the day of your
says the LORD. brother in the day of his mis -
5 If thieves came to you, if fortune; you should not have
plunderers by night — how rejoiced over the people of
you have been destroyed! — Judah in the day of their ruin;
would they not steal only you should not have boasted
enough for themselves? If in the day of distress.
grape gatherers came to you, 13 You should not have en -
would they not leave glean - tered the gate of my people
ings? in the day of his calamity;
6 How Esau has been pil - you should not have gloated
laged, his treasures sought over his disaster in the day
out! of his calamity; you should
7 All your allies have de - not have looted his goods in
ceived you, they have driven the day of his calamity.
you to the border; your con - 14 You should not have
federates have prevailed stood at the parting of the
against you; your trusted ways to cut off his fugitives;
friends have set a trap under you should not have deliv -
you — there is no under - ered up his survivors in the
standing of it. day of distress.
1
OBADIAH
15 For the day of the LORD
is near upon all the nations.
As you have done, it shall be
done to you, your deeds shall
return on your own head.
16 For as you have drunk
upon my holy mountain, all
the nations round about shall
drink; they shall drink, and
stagger, and shall be as
though they had not been.
17 But in Mount Zion there
shall be those that escape,
and it shall be holy; and the
house of Jacob shall possess
their own possessions.
18 The house of Jacob shall
be a fire, and 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 to the house of
Esau; for the LORD has spo -
ken.
19 Those of the Negeb shall
possess Mount Esau, and
those of the Shephe'lah the
land of the Philistines; they
shall possess the land of
E'phraim and the land of
Sama'ria and Benjamin shall
possess Gilead.
20 The exiles in Halah who
are of the people of Israel
shall possess Phoenicia as far
as Zar'ephath; and the exiles
of Jerusalem who are in
Sephar'ad shall possess the
cities of the Negeb.
21 Saviors shall go up to
Mount Zion to rule Mount
Esau; and the kingdom shall
be the LORD's.
