1The 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 . 2Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen : thou art greatly despised . 3The 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 ? 4Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle , and though thou set thy nest among the stars , thence will I bring thee down , saith the LORD . 5If 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 ? 6How are the things of Esau searched out ! how are his hidden things sought up ! 7All 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. 8Shall I not in that day , saith the LORD , even destroy the wise men out of Edom , and understanding out of the mount of Esau ? 9And 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 . 10For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever .
The Destruction of Edom
11In 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. 12But 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 . 13Thou 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 ; 14Neither 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 .
The Restoration of Israel
15For 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 . 16For 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. 17But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance , and there shall be holiness ; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions . 18And 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 . 19And 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 . 20And 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 . 21And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau ; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s .