Obadiah Holman Christian Standard Bible

The vision of Obadiah.

Edom’s Certain Judgment

This is what the Lord God has said about Edom:^(A)

We have heard a message from the Lord;^(B)
a messenger has been sent^(C) among the nations:
“Rise up,^(D) and let us go to war against her.”^[a]
²Look, I will make you insignificant^(E)
among the nations;
you will be deeply despised.
³Your presumptuous heart has deceived you,^(F)
you who live in clefts of the rock^[b]^[c]^(G)
in your home on the heights,
who say to yourself,
“Who can bring me down to the ground?”^(H)
⁴Though you seem to soar^[d] like an eagle^(I)
and make your nest among the stars,^(J)
even from there I will bring you down.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

⁵If thieves came to you,^(K)
if marauders by night—
how ravaged you would be!—
wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
wouldn’t they leave some grapes?^(L)
⁶How Esau will be pillaged,^(M)
his hidden treasures searched out!^(N)
⁷Everyone who has a treaty with you^(O)
will drive you to the border;
everyone at peace with you
will deceive and conquer you.
Those who eat your bread^(P)
will set^[e] a trap for you.
He will be unaware of it.^(Q)
⁸In that day—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom^(R)
and those who understand
from the hill country of Esau?
⁹Teman,^[f]^(S) your warriors^(T) will be terrified
so that everyone from the hill country of Esau
will be destroyed by slaughter.^(U)

Edom’s Sins against Judah

¹⁰You will be covered with shame
and destroyed forever
because of violence done to your brother Jacob.^(V)
¹¹On the day you stood aloof,^(W)
on the day strangers captured his wealth,^[g]
while foreigners entered his gate
and cast lots for Jerusalem,^(X)
you were just like one of them.^(Y)
¹²Do not^[h] gloat over your brother^(Z)
in the day of his calamity;
do not rejoice over the people of Judah^(AA)
in the day of their destruction;
do not boastfully mock^[i]^(AB)
in the day of distress.^(AC)
¹³Do not enter the gate of My people
in the day of their disaster.^(AD)
Yes, you—do not gloat over their misery
in the day of their disaster
and do not appropriate their possessions^(AE)
in the day of their disaster.
¹⁴Do not stand at the crossroads^[j]^(AF)
to cut off their fugitives,
and do not hand over their survivors
in the day of distress.

Judgment of the Nations

¹⁵For the Day of the Lord^(AG) is near,
against all the nations.^(AH)
As you have done,^(AI) so it will be done to you;
what you deserve will return on your own head.^(AJ)
¹⁶As you have drunk on My holy mountain,^(AK)
so all the nations will drink continually.^(AL)
They will drink and gulp down
and be as though they had never been.
¹⁷But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion,^(AM)
and it will be holy;^(AN)
the house of Jacob will dispossess^(AO)
those who dispossessed them.^[k]^(AP)
¹⁸Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,^(AQ)
and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,
but the house of Esau will be stubble;
Jacob^[l] will set them on fire and consume Edom.^[m]
Therefore no survivor will remain^(AR)
of the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.

Future Blessing for Israel

¹⁹People from the Negev will possess^(AS)
the hill country of Esau;^(AT)
those from the Judean foothills will possess
the land of the Philistines.^(AU)
They^[n] will possess
the territories of Ephraim and Samaria,^(AV)
while Benjamin will possess Gilead.
²⁰The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah^[o]
and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath^(AW)
as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the cities of the Negev.^(AX)
²¹Saviors^[p] will ascend Mount Zion^(AY)
to rule over the hill country of Esau,
but the kingdom will be the Lord’s.^(AZ)

Footnotes

Obadiah 1:1 = Edom
Obadiah 1:3 Or in Sela; probably = Petra
Obadiah 1:3 Probably Petra
Obadiah 1:4 Or to build high
Obadiah 1:7 Some LXX mss, Sym, Tg, Vg; MT reads They will set your bread as
Obadiah 1:9 = a region or city in Edom
Obadiah 1:11 Or forces
Obadiah 1:12 Or You should not throughout vv. 12-14
Obadiah 1:12 Lit not make your mouth big
Obadiah 1:14 Hb obscure
Obadiah 1:17 DSS, LXX, Syr, Vg, Tg; MT reads Jacob will possess its inheritance
Obadiah 1:18 Lit they
Obadiah 1:18 Lit them
Obadiah 1:19 = The house of Jacob
Obadiah 1:20 Or of this host of the Israelites; Hb obscure
Obadiah 1:21 Or Those who have been delivered