The Anselm Project

Chapter 1

¹ Vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD to Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and a messenger he has sent among the nations: "Rise up, and let us rise up against her to warfare." ² Behold, I have made you small among the nations; you are exceedingly despised. ³ The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the hiding-places of Rock, in cosmic Divine heights his dwelling; he said in his heart, "Who will bring me down to Earth?" ⁴ If you exalt yourself like an eagle and place your nest among the stars—from there I will bring you down, says the LORD. ⁵ If thieves came to you, if robbers of the night—how were you destroyed? Would they not steal enough? If grape-harvesters came to you, would they not leave gleanings? ⁶ How were Esau's treasures searched out and poured out from his storehouses? ⁷ To the border they have sent you, all the men of your covenant; they have deceived you, men of your peace have prevailed against you; they have put a snare under you with your bread; there is no understanding in him. ⁸ Will I not on that day, says the LORD, destroy the wise from Edom and the understanding from Mount Esau? ⁹ And your mighty ones, Teman, will be shattered, so that every man from Mount Esau may be cut off by slaughter. ¹⁰ From the violence of your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. ¹¹ On the day you stood opposite on the day foreigners returned to his strength, and foreigners came to his gates and cast lots over Jerusalem, you too were like one of them. ¹² And do not look on the day of your brother, on the day of his being estranged, and do not rejoice over the sons of Judah on the day of their perishing, and do not enlarge your mouth on the day of distress. ¹³ Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Do not look—even you—on his evil in the day of his calamity. Do not send them forth into his might in the day of his calamity. ¹⁴ Do not stand at the breach to cut off his escapees, and do not shut up his survivors in the day of distress. ¹⁵ For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you did, it will do to you; your recompense will return upon your head. ¹⁶ For just as you drank on my holy mountain, all the nations shall drink continually. They shall drink and swallow, and they shall be as if confined. ¹⁷ On Mount Zion there will be an escape, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will possess their possessions. ¹⁸ And the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble. And they shall kindle in them and devour them, and there shall not be a survivor to the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken. ¹⁹ They shall possess the Negev of Mount Esau and the Shephelah of the Philistines. And they shall possess the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin's territory of Gilead. ²⁰ The exile of this army of the sons of Israel who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exile of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad—they will possess the cities of the Negeb. ²¹ Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge Mount Esau, and the kingdom will be the LORD's.