For thus says the Lord God: Because (A)you have clapped your hands (B)and stamped your feet and (C)rejoiced with all the (D)malice within your soul against the land of Israel,

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“I have heard (A)the taunts of Moab
    and (B)the revilings of the Ammonites,
how they have taunted my people
    and made boasts (C)against their territory.

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12 (A)But do not gloat over the day of your brother
    in the day of his misfortune;
(B)do not rejoice over the people of Judah
    in the day of their ruin;
(C)do not boast[a]
    in the day of distress.

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:12 Hebrew do not enlarge your mouth

10 This shall be their lot in return (A)for their pride,
    because they taunted and boasted
    against the people of the Lord of hosts.

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19 There is no easing your hurt;
    (A)your wound is grievous.
All who hear the news about you
    (B)clap their hands over you.
For (C)upon whom has not come
    your unceasing evil?

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therefore thus says the Lord God: Surely I have spoken in (A)my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and (B)against all Edom, who (C)gave my land to themselves as a possession (D)with wholehearted joy and (E)utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.

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Prophecy Against Philistia

15 “Thus says the Lord God: Because (A)the Philistines (B)acted revengefully and took vengeance (C)with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity,

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11 Thus says the Lord God: (A)“Clap your hands (B)and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, (C)for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

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15 This is the exultant city
    (A)that lived securely,
that said in her heart,
    “I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
    (B)a lair for wild beasts!
(C)Everyone who passes by her
    hisses and (D)shakes his fist.

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15 As you (A)rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, (B)Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then (C)they will know that I am the Lord.

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15 All who pass along the way
    clap their hands at you;
(A)they hiss and wag their heads
    at the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
    (B)the perfection of beauty,
    (C)the joy of all the earth?”

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27 (A)Was not Israel a derision to you? (B)Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him (C)you wagged your head?

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17 (A)Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
    and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,

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37 For he adds rebellion to his sin;
    he (A)claps his hands among us
    and multiplies his words against God.”

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(A)Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—(B)if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!” (C)Hear, O our God, for we are despised. (D)Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.

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