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The
vision of Obadiah. This is what the Sovereign LORD says about Edom-- We
have heard a message from the LORD: An envoy was sent to the nations to
say, "Rise, and let us go against her for battle"-- {2} "See, I
will make you small among the nations; you will be utterly despised.
{3} The pride of your 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 like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I
will bring you down," declares the LORD. {5} "If thieves came to
you, if robbers in the night-- Oh, what a disaster awaits you-- would
they not steal only as much as they wanted? If grape pickers came to
you, would they not leave a few grapes? {6} But how Esau will be
ransacked, his hidden treasures pillaged! {7} All your allies
will force you to the border; your friends 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, men of understanding in the mountains of
Esau? {9} Your warriors, O Teman, will be terrified, and everyone
in Esau's mountains will be cut down in the slaughter. {10}
Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered
with shame; you will be destroyed forever. {11} On the day you
stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners
entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of
them. {12} You should not look down on your brother in the day of
his misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their
destruction, nor boast so much in the day of their trouble. {13}
You should not march through the gates of my people in the day of their
disaster, nor look down on them in their calamity in the day of their
disaster, nor seize their wealth in the day of their disaster. {14}
You should not wait at the crossroads to cut down their fugitives,
nor hand over their survivors in the day of their trouble. {15}
"The day of the LORD is near for all nations. As you have done, it will
be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head. {16}
Just as you drank on my holy hill, so all the nations will drink
continually; they will drink and drink and be as if they had never been.
{17} But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and the
house of Jacob will possess its inheritance. {18} The house of
Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame; the house of Esau
will be stubble, and 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 occupy the mountains of Esau, and people
from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will
occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess
Gilead. {20} This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan
will possess the land as far as Zarephath; the exiles from
Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the towns of the Negev.
{21} Deliverers will go up on Mount Zion to govern the mountains of
Esau. And the kingdom will be the Lord's. |
