
{1}1{/}

AGAINST EDOM{/}

{I}1_{/}The Vision of 
Obadiah. This is what the 
Lord Yahweh says about 
Edom:
We have heard news from 
Yahweh, and a messenger 
has been sent out to the 
nations to say, "Rise, 
let us go against Esau."
{I}2_{/}The day has come: 
you now are small among 
the nations; you are 
utterly despised.
{I}3_{/}Your arrogance 
has led you astray,
you who live in the 
clefts of the rock,
you who make the heights 
your home,
you who say to yourself:
Who can bring me down to 
the ground?
{I}4_{/}Though you soar 
like the eagle, though 
you make your nests among 
the stars,
I will bring you down 
again.
{I}5_{/}If thieves or 
plunderers come at night,
what a disaster awaits 
you then!
Would they not ransack 
till they had enough? If 
grape gatherers worked in 
your vineyard, would they 
not leave only gleanings? 
{I}6_{/}See how Esau has 
been looted,
even his hidden treasures 
pillaged!
{I}7_{/}You have been 
driven to the frontiers:
and those were your very 
friends!
Those who partook of your 
bread
set for you a trap in 
secret.
{I}8_{/}Yahweh declares: 
Shall I not destroy
the wise men of Edom on 
that day,
and deprive of sages the 
mountain of Esau?
{I}9_{/}Your warriors, O 
Teman, will be afraid,
and all from Mount Esau 
will be slaughtered.
{I}10_{/}For the violence 
done to Jacob, your 
brother,
you will be disgraced and 
destroyed forever.
{I}11_{/}You stood aloof 
in waiting
when strangers carried 
off his wealth,
when foreigners entered 
his gates
and cast lots for 
Jerusalem,
you were as guilty as the 
rest of them.
{I}12_{/}Do not come to 
see and gloat
over the misfortune of 
your brother.
Do not exult over Judah's 
ruin,
nor brag on the day of 
her destruction.
{I}13_{/}Do not go 
through the gate of my 
people
on the day of their 
disgrace,
nor gloat over them in 
their misfortune
on the day of their 
adversity,
nor lay your hands upon 
their possessions
on the day of their 
destruction.
{I}14_{/}Do not wait at 
the crossroad
to slay their stragglers,
nor betray their 
survivors
on the day of their 
disaster.
{I}15_{/}For the day of 
Yahweh is near
for every nation.
As you have done to 
another,
so to you will it be 
done.
Whatever you have done
will come back upon your 
head.
{I}16_{/}For as you have 
drunk on my holy 
mountain,
so will the surrounding 
nation drink,
drink and drink up to the 
brim...
Then they shall be as if 
they had never been.
{I}17_{/}But there will 
be survivors on Mount 
Zion
- a holy remnant.
The house of Jacob will 
take possession
of its own inheritance.
{I}18_{/}The nation of 
Jacob will be a fire,
the nation of Joseph a 
flame;
but those of Esau will be 
a stubble,
and they will burn and 
consume them.
And of Esau's house none 
will remain, for it is 
Yahweh who has spoken.
{I}19_{/}People from the 
Negeb
will occupy Esau's 
mountains;
those from the plains,
the land of the 
Philistines;
they will occupy Ephraim 
and Samaria,
and Benjamin will possess 
Gilead.
{I}20_{/}The Israelite 
exiles who are in Canaan
will possess Phoenicia as 
far as Zarephtah;
the exiles from Jerusalem 
now in Sepharad
will possess the towns of 
the Negeb.
{I}21_{/}Deliverers will 
ascend Mount Zion
to rule over the 
mountains of Esau,
- then Yahweh will reign.

