“If thieves came to you,
    if robbers in the night—
oh, what a disaster awaits you!—
    would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
    would they not leave a few grapes?(A)
But how Esau will be ransacked,
    his hidden treasures pillaged!
All your allies(B) will force you to the border;
    your friends will deceive and overpower you;
those who eat your bread(C) will set a trap for you,[a]
    but you will not detect it.

“In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “will I not destroy(D) the wise men of Edom,
    those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
Your warriors, Teman,(E) will be terrified,
    and everyone in Esau’s mountains
    will be cut down in the slaughter.
10 Because of the violence(F) against your brother Jacob,(G)
    you will be covered with shame;
    you will be destroyed forever.(H)
11 On the day you stood aloof
    while strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
    and cast lots(I) for Jerusalem,
    you were like one of them.(J)
12 You should not gloat(K) over your brother
    in the day of his misfortune,(L)
nor rejoice(M) over the people of Judah
    in the day of their destruction,(N)
nor boast(O) so much
    in the day of their trouble.(P)
13 You should not march through the gates of my people
    in the day of their disaster,
nor gloat over them in their calamity(Q)
    in the day of their disaster,
nor seize their wealth
    in the day of their disaster.
14 You should not wait at the crossroads
    to cut down their fugitives,(R)
nor hand over their survivors
    in the day of their trouble.

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

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