Obadiah 5-9

The Voice

⁵ Consider how thoroughly you will be wiped out.
    If thieves come to steal from you
And robbers arrive under cover of night,
    won’t they take only what they want?
If the grape harvesters arrive,
    doesn’t their hasty picking usually leave some fruit in the field for the poor?
⁶ But Esau, your nation will be ransacked;
    there will be nothing left.
Every last treasure you had carefully hidden will be taken.
⁷ Your supposed allies—every last one—will turn against you;
    they will run you out of your own town.
And those who promised you peace
    will lie to your face and conquer you.
Even those who shared your bread will ambush you.
    You won’t understand what is happening until it is too late.

⁸ Eternal One: When this day comes,
        won’t I destroy the wisest citizens of Edom,
    Make all insight vanish from Mount Esau,
        and leave all helpless?
⁹     As for your warriors, great Edomite city of Teman,
        they will be routed, shattered.
    Their slaughtered bodies will cut off everyone’s path to Mount Esau