Obadiah 5-14

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⁵ If thieves came to you,
    if plunderers by night
    —how you have been destroyed!—
    would they not steal only what they wanted?
If grape gatherers came to you,
    would they not leave gleanings?^(A)
6 How Esau has been pillaged,
    his treasures searched out!
⁷ All your allies have deceived you;
    they have driven you to the border;
your confederates have prevailed against you;
    those who ate your food have set a trap for you—
    there is no understanding.^(B)
8 On that day, says the Lord,
    I will destroy the wise out of Edom
    and understanding out of Mount Esau.^(C)
9 Your warriors shall be shattered, O Teman,
    so that everyone from Mount Esau will be cut off.^(D)

¹⁰ For the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob,
    shame shall cover you,
    and you shall be cut off forever.^(E)
11 On the day that you stood aside,
    on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
    and cast lots for Jerusalem,
    you, too, were one of them.^(F)
12 But you should not have gloated over^[a] your brother
    on the day of his misfortune;
you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah
    on the day of their ruin;
you should not have boasted
    on the day of distress.^(G)
13 You should not have entered the gate of my people
    on the day of their calamity;
you should not have joined in the gloating over Judah’s^[b] disaster
    on the day of his calamity;
you should not have stolen his goods
    on the day of his calamity.^(H)
14 You should not have stood at the crossings
    to cut off his fugitives;
you should not have handed over his survivors
    on the day of distress.