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Obadiah
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### Obadiah’s Vision(A)(B)

1 The vision(C) of Obadiah.

This is what the Sovereign Lord says about Edom(D)—

We have heard a message from the Lord:
An envoy(E) was sent to the nations to say,
“Rise, let us go against her for battle”(F)—

2 “See, I will make you small(G) among the nations;
you will be utterly despised.
3 The pride(H) of your heart has deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rocks[a](I)
and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’(J)
4 Though you soar like the eagle
and make your nest(K) among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,”(L)
declares the Lord.(M)
5 “If thieves came to you,
if robbers in the night—
oh, what a disaster awaits you!—
would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
would they not leave a few grapes?(N)
6 But how Esau will be ransacked,
his hidden treasures pillaged!
7 All your allies(O) will force you to the border;
your friends will deceive and overpower you;
those who eat your bread(P) will set a trap for you,[b]
but you will not detect it.

8 “In that day,” declares the Lord,
“will I not destroy(Q) the wise men of Edom,
those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
9 Your warriors, Teman,(R) will be terrified,
and everyone in Esau’s mountains
will be cut down in the slaughter.
10 Because of the violence(S) against your brother Jacob,(T)
you will be covered with shame;
you will be destroyed forever.(U)
11 On the day you stood aloof
while strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
and cast lots(V) for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.(W)
12 You should not gloat(X) over your brother
in the day of his misfortune,(Y)
nor rejoice(Z) over the people of Judah
in the day of their destruction,(AA)
nor boast(AB) so much
in the day of their trouble.(AC)
13 You should not march through the gates of my people
in the day of their disaster,
nor gloat over them in their calamity(AD)
in the day of their disaster,
nor seize their wealth
in the day of their disaster.
14 You should not wait at the crossroads
to cut down their fugitives,(AE)
nor hand over their survivors
in the day of their trouble.

15 “The day of the Lord is near(AF)
for all nations.
As you have done, it will be done to you;
your deeds(AG) will return upon your own head.
16 Just as you drank(AH) on my holy hill,(AI)
so all the nations will drink(AJ) continually;
they will drink and drink
and be as if they had never been.(AK)
17 But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;(AL)
it will be holy,(AM)
and Jacob will possess his inheritance.(AN)
18 Jacob will be a fire
and Joseph a flame;
Esau will be stubble,
and they will set him on fire(AO) and destroy(AP) him.
There will be no survivors(AQ)
from Esau.”
The Lord has spoken.

19 People from the Negev will occupy
the mountains of Esau,
and people from the foothills will possess
the land of the Philistines.(AR)
They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,(AS)
and Benjamin(AT) will possess Gilead.
20 This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan
will possess the land as far as Zarephath;(AU)
the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the towns of the Negev.(AV)
21 Deliverers(AW) will go up on[c] Mount Zion
to govern the mountains of Esau.
And the kingdom will be the Lord’s.(AX)

#### Footnotes

1. Obadiah 1:3 Or of Sela
2. Obadiah 1:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
3. Obadiah 1:21 Or from

#### Cross references

1. Obadiah 1:1 : 1-4pp — Jer 49:14-16
2. Obadiah 1:1 : 5-6pp — Jer 49:9-10
3. Obadiah 1:1 : S Isa 1:1
4. Obadiah 1:1 : S Ge 25:14; S Isa 11:14; S 34:11; 63:1-6; Jer 49:7-22; S Eze 25:12-14; S 32:29; S Am 1:11-12
5. Obadiah 1:1 : Isa 18:2
6. Obadiah 1:1 : Jer 6:4-5
7. Obadiah 1:2 : Nu 24:18
8. Obadiah 1:3 : S Isa 16:6
9. Obadiah 1:3 : fn Isa 16:1
10. Obadiah 1:3 : S 2Ch 25:11-12
11. Obadiah 1:4 : S Isa 10:14
12. Obadiah 1:4 : S Isa 14:13
13. Obadiah 1:4 : S Job 20:6
14. Obadiah 1:5 : S Dt 4:27; 24:21; S Isa 24:13
15. Obadiah 1:7 : Jer 30:14
16. Obadiah 1:7 : S Ps 41:9
17. Obadiah 1:8 : Job 5:12; Isa 29:14
18. Obadiah 1:9 : S Ge 36:11, 34
19. Obadiah 1:10 : S Joel 3:19
20. Obadiah 1:10 : Ps 137:7; Am 1:11-12
21. Obadiah 1:10 : S Ps 137:7; S Eze 25:12-14; 35:9
22. Obadiah 1:11 : S Job 6:27; S Eze 24:6
23. Obadiah 1:11 : S Am 1:6
24. Obadiah 1:12 : Pr 24:17
25. Obadiah 1:12 : S Job 31:29
26. Obadiah 1:12 : S Eze 35:15
27. Obadiah 1:12 : S Pr 17:5
28. Obadiah 1:12 : Ps 137:7
29. Obadiah 1:12 : S Eze 25:6; Mic 4:11; 7:8
30. Obadiah 1:13 : S Eze 35:5
31. Obadiah 1:14 : S 1Ki 18:4
32. Obadiah 1:15 : S Jer 46:10; S Eze 30:3; S Joel 2:31; S Am 5:18
33. Obadiah 1:15 : S Jer 50:29; Hab 2:8
34. Obadiah 1:16 : Isa 51:17
35. Obadiah 1:16 : S Ex 15:17
36. Obadiah 1:16 : Jer 25:15; 49:12; S La 4:21-22
37. Obadiah 1:16 : S La 4:21; S Eze 25:12-14
38. Obadiah 1:17 : S Ps 69:35; S Isa 14:1-2; Joel 2:32; S Am 9:11-15
39. Obadiah 1:17 : S Ps 74:2; S Isa 4:3
40. Obadiah 1:17 : Zec 8:12
41. Obadiah 1:18 : S Isa 1:31
42. Obadiah 1:18 : Zec 12:6
43. Obadiah 1:18 : S Jer 49:10
44. Obadiah 1:19 : Isa 11:14
45. Obadiah 1:19 : S Jer 31:5
46. Obadiah 1:19 : S Nu 1:36
47. Obadiah 1:20 : 1Ki 17:9-10; Lk 4:26
48. Obadiah 1:20 : S Jer 33:13
49. Obadiah 1:21 : S Dt 28:29; S Jdg 3:9
50. Obadiah 1:21 : S Ps 22:28; 47:9; 66:4; S Da 2:44; Zec 14:9, 16; Mal 1:14; Rev 11:15

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