1 ¶ The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord GOD says concerning Edom; We have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations, Arise, and let us fight against her in battle.

2 Behold, I will make you small among the nations: and you will be greatly despised.

3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose home is on the heights; who say to yourself, Who can bring me down to the ground?

4 Even if you could fly as high as an eagle, and even build your nest among the stars, I would bring you down from there, says the LORD.

5 If thieves and robbers came to you by night, (Oh how you would be ruined!) would they not steal until they have enough? if the grape-gatherers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some grapes?

6 Oh how the things of Esau are pillaged! and his hidden treasures are searched out!

7 All the men of your confederacy will drive you to the border: the men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; those who eat your bread will set traps for you: and you will be unaware of it.

8 In that day, says the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom, and those who understand in hill country of Esau?

9 And your mighty men, O Teman, will despair, so that every one on the mount of Esau will be slaughtered.

10 ¶ You will be covered with shame because of your violence against your brother Jacob, and you will be destroyed forever.

11 On the day that you stood by, when strangers carried off his goods, and foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots over Jerusalem, you were as one of them.

12 Do not gloat over your brother on the day of his calamity; or rejoice over the children of Judah at the time of their destruction; or mock boastfully on the day of distress.

13 Do not enter the gate of my people at the time of their calamity; yes, do not look with delight on their suffering at the time of their calamity, or lay hands on their goods on the day of their disaster;

14 Nor should you stand at the crossroads, to kill those of Judah who escape; or deliver up those of his who remain on the day of distress.

15 For the day of the LORD is near for all the heathen: as you have done, it will be done to you: what you deserve will come down upon your own head.

16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually, yea, they will drink, and they will swallow, and they will be as though they had never been.

17 ¶ But there will be deliverance on mount Zion, and there will be holiness; and the house of Jacob will regain the things that belong to them.

18 And the house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau will be stubble, and they will burn them, and consume them; and no one will remain of the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken.

19 And those of the south will possess the mount of Esau; and those of the plain the Philistines: and they will possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin will possess Gilead.

20 And this host of exiles of the children of Israel will possess the land of the Canaanites, even to Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the south.

21 And those who bring deliverance will come up from mount Zion to rule over the mount of Esau; and the kingdom will be the LORD’S.