Obadiah 5-9

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁵ If thieves came to you,^(A)
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?^(B)
6 How Esau will be pillaged,^(C)
his hidden treasures searched out!^(D)
7 Everyone who has a treaty with you^(E)
will drive you to the border;
everyone at peace with you
will deceive and conquer you.
Those who eat your bread^(F)
will set^[a] a trap for you.
He will be unaware of it.^(G)
8 In that day—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom^(H)
and those who understand
from the hill country of Esau?
⁹ Teman,^[b](I) your warriors^(J) will be terrified
so that everyone from the hill country of Esau
will be destroyed by slaughter.^(K)