Oracle Against Edom: Judgment and Israel’s Restoration
Obadiah 1:1-21
1The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: Rise up, and let us rise up against her for battle.2Behold, I have made you small among the nations; you are greatly despised.3The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose seat is on the height, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the land?4Though you exalt yourself like the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.5If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night—how you have been destroyed!—would they not steal only their sufficiency? If gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?6How Esau has been searched out; his hidden treasures have been discovered.7All the men of your covenant have driven you to the border; the men of your peace have deceived you and prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have set a net under you; there is no understanding in him.8Will it not be on that day, declares the LORD, that I will destroy the wise from Edom and understanding from the mountain of Esau?9Your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.10Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.11On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you also were like one of them.12Do not gaze on the day of your brother, on the day of his misfortune; do not rejoice over the sons of Judah on the day of their destruction; do not magnify your mouth in the day of distress.13Do not enter the gate of my people on the day of their calamity; do not gaze, you also, on his distress on the day of his calamity; do not send on his wealth on the day of his calamity.14Do not stand upon the plunder to cut off his survivors; do not shut his survivors in the day of distress.15For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations; as you have done, it shall be done to you; your recompense shall return upon your head.16For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and they shall be as though they had never been.17But on Mount Zion there shall be a survivor, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.18The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn among them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor of the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.19They shall possess the Negeb and the mountain of Esau, and the Shephelah and the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.20The exiles of this company of the sons of Israel who are Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the Negeb.21Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau, and the kingship shall belong to the LORD.