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vision of Obadiah.
This is what the Lord God says about Edom—
We have heard a message from the Lord:
A messenger has been sent among the nations to say,
“Rise up, and let us go out against her for battle.”
2 “Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
you will be utterly despised.
3 Your proud heart has deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rocks
and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
4 Though you soar aloft like an eagle,
and though you make your nest among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,”
declares the Lord.
5 “If thieves came to you,
if robbers came by night—
Oh, how ravaged you would be—
would they not steal only what they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
would they not leave a few grapes?
6 Oh, how Esau will be pillaged,
his hidden treasures searched out!
7 All your allies will force you to the border;
everyone at peace with you
will deceive and overpower you;
those who eat your bread will set a trap for you,
but you will not detect it.
8 “In that day,” declares the Lord,
“will I not destroy the wise men of Edom;
those with understanding from the mountains of Esau?
9 Then your warriors, O Teman, will be dismayed,
and everyone in the mountains of Esau
will be cut down in the slaughter.
10 “Because of the violence you have committed
against your brother Jacob,
you will be covered with shame,
and you will be destroyed forever.
11 On that day you stood aloof;
on the day strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were just like one of them.
12 You should not have gloated over your brother
in the day of his calamity,
nor should you have rejoiced over the people of Judah
in the day of their destruction,
nor should you have boastfully mocked them
in the day of their distress.
13 You should not have marched through the gates of My people
in the day of their disaster.
Indeed, you should not have gloated over them
in the day of their disaster,
nor should you have looted their goods
in the day of their disaster.
14 You should not have waited at the crossroads
to cut down those who had escaped,
nor should you have handed over their survivors
in the day of their distress.
15 “The Day of the Lord is near
against all the nations.
As you have done,
so it will be done to you;
your deeds
will return on your own head.
16 For just as you drank on My holy mountain,
so all the nations will drink continually;
they will drink and gulp down
and be as though they had never been.
17 “But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance,
and it will be holy.
The house of Jacob
will dispossess those who dispossessed them.
18 The house of Jacob will be a fire,
and the house of Joseph a flame,
but the house of Esau will be stubble;
they will set it on fire and consume it.
There will be no survivors
from the house of Esau.”
The Lord has spoken.
19 People from the Negev will possess
the mountains of Esau;
people from the Judean foothills will possess
the land of the Philistines.
They will occupy the territories of Ephraim and Samaria,
and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
20 The exiles of the Israelites who are in Canaan
will possess the land as far as Zarephath;
the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the cities of the Negev.
21 Then deliverers will go up on Mount Zion
to rule over the mountains of Esau.
And the kingdom will belong to the Lord.