Obadiah

Legacy Standard Bible

^(B)We have heard a report from Yahweh,
And an ^(C)envoy has been sent among the nations saying,
“^(D)Arise! And let us arise against her for battle”—
² “Behold, I will make you ^(E)small among the nations;
You are greatly despised.
³ The ^(F)arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
You who dwell in the clefts of ^[b]the ^(G)cliff,
In the height of your habitation,
Who says in his heart,
‘^(H)Who will bring me down to earth?’
⁴ Though you ^(I)build loftily like the eagle,
Though you set your nest among the ^(J)stars,
From there I will bring you down,” declares Yahweh.
⁵ “If ^(K)thieves came to you,
If ^[c]robbers by night—
Oh how you will be ruined!—
Would they not thieve only ^[d]until they had enough?
If grape gatherers came to you,
^(L)Would they not allow some gleanings to remain?
⁶ Oh how Esau will be ^(M)searched out
And his hidden treasures ransacked!
⁷ All the ^(N)men who have ^[e]a covenant with you
Will send you forth to the border,
And the men at peace with you
Will deceive you and overpower you.
They who eat your ^(O)bread
Will set an ambush for you.
(There is ^(P)no discernment ^[f]in him.)
⁸ Will I not on that day,” declares Yahweh,
“^(Q)Cause the wise men to perish from Edom
And discernment from the mountain of Esau?
⁹ Then your ^(R)mighty men will be dismayed, O ^(S)Teman,
So that each one may be ^(T)cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

¹⁵ “For the ^(AF)day of Yahweh draws near on all the nations.
^(AG)As you have done, it will be done to you.
Your ^(AH)dealings will return on your own head.
¹⁶ Because just as you all ^(AI)drank on ^(AJ)My holy mountain,
All the nations ^(AK)will drink continually.
They will drink and ^[i]swallow,
And they will be as if they never were.
¹⁷ But on Mount ^(AL)Zion there will be those who escape,
And it will be holy.
And the house of Jacob will ^(AM)possess their possessions.
¹⁸ Then the house of Jacob will be a ^(AN)fire
And the house of Joseph a flame;
But the house of Esau will be as stubble.
And they will set ^[j]them on fire and consume ^[k]them
So that there will be ^(AO)no survivor of the house of Esau,”
For Yahweh has spoken.

¹⁹ Then those of the ^[l]Negev will ^(AP)possess the mountain of Esau,
And those of the ^[m]Shephelah, the ^(AQ)Philistine plain;
And they will ^(AR)possess the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria,
And Benjamin will possess Gilead.
²⁰ And the exiles of this ^[n]military force of the sons of Israel,
Who are among the Canaanites as far as ^(AS)Zarephath,
And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad,
Will possess the ^(AT)cities of the Negev.
²¹ And the ^(AU)saviors will ascend Mount Zion
To judge the mountain of Esau,
And the ^(AV)kingdom will belong to Yahweh.