Obadiah 1-14

New King James Version

The Coming Judgment on Edom

¹The vision of Obadiah.

Thus says the Lord God ^(A)concerning Edom
^(B)(We have heard a report from the Lord,
And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying,
“Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle”):

²“Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
You shall be greatly despised.
³The ^(C)pride of your heart has deceived you,
You who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
Whose habitation is high;
^(D)You who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
⁴^(E)Though you ascend as high as the eagle,
And though you ^(F)set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down,” says the Lord.

⁵“If ^(G)thieves had come to you,
If robbers by night—
Oh, how you will be cut off!—
Would they not have stolen till they had enough?
If grape-gatherers had come to you,
^(H)Would they not have left some gleanings?

⁶“Oh, how Esau shall be searched out!
How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!
⁷All the men in your confederacy
Shall force you to the border;
^(I)The men at peace with you
Shall deceive you and prevail against you.
Those who eat your bread shall lay a ^[a]trap for you.
^(J)No^[b] one is aware of it.

⁸“Will^(K) I not in that day,” says the Lord,
“Even destroy the wise men from Edom,
And understanding from the mountains of Esau?
⁹Then your ^(L)mighty men, O ^(M)Teman, shall be dismayed,
To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau
May be cut off by slaughter.

Edom Mistreated His Brother

¹⁰“For ^(N)violence against your brother Jacob,
Shame shall cover you,
And ^(O)you shall be cut off forever.
¹¹In the day that you ^(P)stood on the other side—
In the day that strangers carried captive his forces,
When foreigners entered his gates
And ^(Q)cast lots for Jerusalem—
Even you were as one of them.

¹²“But you should not have ^(R)gazed^[c] on the day of your brother
^[d]In the day of his captivity;
Nor should you have ^(S)rejoiced over the children of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Nor should you have spoken proudly
In the day of distress.
¹³You should not have entered the gate of My people
In the day of their calamity.
Indeed, you should not have ^[e]gazed on their affliction
In the day of their calamity,
Nor laid hands on their substance
In the day of their calamity.
¹⁴You should not have stood at the crossroads
To cut off those among them who escaped;
Nor should you have ^[f]delivered up those among them who remained
In the day of distress.