Old Testament · Prophets

Obadiah chapter 1

What Obadiah saw. This is what Yahweh the Master says about : We have heard a report from Yahweh. A has been sent out among the nations: “On your feet. Let’s go up against her and fight.”Look, I am making you small among the nations, someone everyone looks down on.The pride in your heart has fooled you, you who live in the , you who make your home high up, you who say to yourself, “Who could ever bring me down to the ground?”Even if you climb as high as the , even if you build your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.If thieves came for you, if robbers came in the night, wouldn’t they take only what they wanted? If grape pickers came for you, wouldn’t they ? But look how completely you are ruined.How thoroughly has been picked over, every hiding place turned out.Everyone you had an agreement with has walked you to the border. The men who were at peace with you have fooled you and won. have set a trap under your feet. There is no understanding left in him.On that day, says Yahweh, won’t I wipe out and every trace of understanding from the mountain of Esau?Your fighters will lose their nerve, , and every man on Esau’s mountain will be cut down in the killing.Because of the you did to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you and you will be cut off for good.On the day you stood off to the side, on the day strangers hauled away his wealth and foreigners walked in through his gates and for Jerusalem, you were one of them.Don’t gloat over your brother on the day everything goes wrong for him. Don’t be glad about the people of Judah on the day they are destroyed. Don’t on the day they are in trouble.Don’t walk in through the gate of my people on the day of their disaster. Don’t you stand there looking at his suffering on . Don’t reach for his wealth on the day of his disaster.Don’t stand at to cut down the ones running for their lives. Don’t hand over the ones who got away, on the day they are in trouble. is close now, and it is coming for every nation. What you did will be done to you. What you handed out will come back on your own head.Just as you drank on , every nation will , and keep on drinking. They will drink it down, swallow it, and be as though they had never existed.But on Mount Zion some will get out alive, and the mountain will be , and the house of Jacob will take back what belonged to them.The house of Jacob will be fire and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau will be . They will set it alight and burn it up, and no one from the house of Esau will be left, because Yahweh has said so.People from will take over Esau’s mountain, and people from will take over Philistine country. They will take the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria, and Benjamin will take Gilead.The exiles of Israel, this whole army of them scattered among the Canaanites as far as , and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in , will take over the towns of the Negev. will go up onto Mount Zion to the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom will belong to Yahweh.