Obadiah 1 - Christian Standard Bible（CSB）

1The vision of Obadiah.

Edom’s Certain Judgment

This is what the Lord God has said about Edom: 

We have heard a message from the  Lord; 

an envoy has been sent  among the nations:

“Rise up,  and let’s go to war against her.” 

2Look, I will make you insignificant 

among the nations;

you will be deeply despised.

3Your arrogant heart has deceived you, 

you who live in clefts of the rock  ,

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in your home on the heights,

who say to yourself,

“Who can bring me down to the ground? ” 

4Though you seem to soar  like an eagle 

and make your nest among the stars, 

even from there I will bring you down.

This is the  Lord’s declaration.

5If thieves came to you, 

if marauders by night —

how ravaged you would be! —

wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?

If grape harvesters came to you,

wouldn’t they leave a few grapes? 

6How Esau will be pillaged, 

his hidden treasures searched out! 

7Everyone who has a treaty with you 

will drive you to the border;

everyone at peace with you

will deceive and conquer you.

Those who eat your bread 

will set  a trap for you.

He will be unaware of it. 

8In that day —

this is the  Lord’s declaration —

will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom 

and those who understand

from the hill country of Esau?

9Teman,  ,

your warriors  will be terrified

so that everyone from the hill country of Esau

will be destroyed by slaughter.  Edom’s Sins against Judah

10You will be covered with shame

and destroyed forever

because of violence done to your brother Jacob. 

11On the day you stood aloof, 

on the day strangers captured his wealth, 

while foreigners entered his city gate

and cast lots for Jerusalem, 

you were just like one of them. 

12Do not  gloat over your brother 

in the day of his calamity;

do not rejoice over the people of Judah 

in the day of their destruction;

do not boastfully mock  ,

in the day of distress. 

13Do not enter my people’s city gate

in the day of their disaster. 

Yes, you #— #do not gloat over their misery

in the day of their disaster,

and do not appropriate their possessions 

in the day of their disaster.

14Do not stand at the crossroads  ,

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   is near,

against all the nations. 

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

what you deserve will return on your own head. 

16As you have drunk on my holy mountain, 

so all the nations will drink continually. 

They will drink and gulp down

and be as though they had never been.

17But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion, 

and it will be holy; 

the house of Jacob will dispossess 

those who dispossessed them.  ,

18Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, 

and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,

but the house of Esau will be stubble;

Jacob  will set them on fire and consume Edom. 

Therefore no survivor will remain 

of the house of Esau,

for the Lord has spoken.

Future Blessing for Israel

19People from the Negev will possess 

the hill country of Esau; 

those from the Judean foothills will possess

the land of the Philistines. 

They  will possess

the territories of Ephraim and Samaria, 

while Benjamin will possess Gilead.

20The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah 

and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath 

as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

will possess the cities of the Negev. 

21Saviors  will ascend Mount Zion 

to rule over the hill country of Esau,

and the kingdom will be the  Lord’s.