Obadiah 1 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

Edom Will Be Humbled

1The vision of Obadiah.

Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom—

We have heard a report from the Lord,

And an ambassador has been sent among the nations, saying,

“Arise, and let us rise up against Edom for battle!”

2“Behold, I shall make you small among the nations;

You are greatly despised.

3“The pride and arrogance of your heart have deceived you,

You who live in the clefts and lofty security of the rock (Sela),

Whose dwelling place is high,

Who say in your heart,

‘Who will bring me down to earth?’

4“Though you build on high like the eagle,

Though you set your nest among the stars,

I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.

5“If thieves came to you,

If robbers by night—

How you will be ruined!—

Would they not steal only until they had enough?

If grape gatherers came to you,

Would they not leave some grapes for gleaning?

6“How Esau (Edom) shall be ransacked!

How his hidden treasures shall be searched out!

7“All the men allied with you

Shall send you on your way to the border;

The men who were at peace with you

Shall deceive you and overpower you;

Those who eat your bread

Shall set a hostile ambush for you.

(There is no understanding of it.)

8“Will I not on that day,” says the Lord,

“Destroy the wise men from Edom

And understanding from the mountain of Esau?

9“And your mighty men shall be dismayed and demoralized, O Teman,

So that everyone from the mountain of Esau may be cut off in the slaughter.

Edom Denounced

10¶“Because of the violence you did against your brother Jacob,

Shame shall cover you,

And you shall be cut off forever.

11“On the day that you stood aloof—

On the day that strangers took his forces captive and carried off his wealth,

And foreigners entered his gates

And cast lots for Jerusalem—

You too were like one of them.

12“Do not gaze and gloat over your brother’s day,

The day when his misfortune came.

Do not rejoice over the sons of Judah

In the day of their destruction;

Do not speak arrogantly

In the day of their distress.

13“Do not enter the gate of My people

In the day of their disaster;

Yes, you, do not look on their misery

In the day of their ruin,

And do not loot treasures

In the day of their ruin.

14“Do not stand at the crossroad

To cut down those who escaped;

And do not hand over those who survive

In the day of their distress.

The Day of the Lord

and the Future

15¶“For the day of the Lord draws near on all the nations.

As you have done, it shall be done to you;

Your dealings will return on your own head.

16“Because just as you drank on My holy mountain,

So shall all the nations drink continually;

Yes, they shall drink and swallow

And become as though they had never existed.

17“But on Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,

And it shall be holy;

And the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

18“Then the house of Jacob shall be a fire

And the house of Joseph a flame;

But the house of Esau will be like stubble.

They (Jacob) shall set them on fire and consume them (the Edomites),

So that there shall be no survivor of the house of Esau,”

For the Lord has spoken.

19Then those of the Negev shall possess the mountain of Esau,

And those of the Shephelah the Philistine plain;

Also, possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria,

And Benjamin will possess Gilead.

20And the exiles of this host of the sons (descendants) of Israel

Who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,

And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

Shall possess the cities of the Negev.

21The deliverers shall go up on Mount Zion

To rule and judge the mountain of Esau,

And the kingdom and the kingship shall be the Lord’s.