THE BOOK OF OBADIAH
King James Version
1 ¶ The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD
concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an
ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her
in battle.
2 Behold, I have
made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.
3 The pride of
thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock,
whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
4 Though thou
exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars,
thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
5 If thieves came
to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have
stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not
leave some grapes?
6 How are the
things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
7 All the men of
thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at
peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat
thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.
8 Shall I not in
that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and
understanding out of the mount of Esau?
9 And thy mighty
men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau
may be cut off by slaughter.
10 ¶ For thy violence against thy
brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
11 In the day
that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried
away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots
upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
12
But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day
that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the
children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have
spoken proudly in the day of distress.
13 Thou shouldest
not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity;
yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their
calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
14 Neither
shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did
escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain
in the day of distress.
15
For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done,
it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
16 For as ye have
drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea,
they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they
had not been.
17 ¶ But upon mount Zion shall be
deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess
their possessions.
18 And the house
of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of
Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there
shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
19
And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the
plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the
fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 And the
captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the
Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
21 And saviours
shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall
be the LORD'S.