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; they that 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.