¹ The vision of Obadiah. So says the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise you, and let us rise up against her in battle. ² See, I have made you small among the heathen: you are greatly despised. ³ The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwells in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that says in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground? ⁴ though you exalt yourself as the eagle, and even though you set your nest among the stars, from there will I bring you down, says the LORD. ⁵ If thieves came to you, if robbers by night, (how are you cut off !) would they not have stolen till they have enough? if the grapegatherers came to you, 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 your confederacy have brought you even to the border: the men that were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; those eat your bread have laid a wound under you: there is none understanding in him. ⁸ will I not in that day, says the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? ⁹ And your mighty men, O Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. ¹⁰ For your violence against your brother Jacob shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. ¹¹ In the day that you stands on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, even you were as one of them. ¹² But you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day that he became a stranger neither should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction neither should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress. ¹³ You should not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yes, you should not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their wealth in the day of their calamity; ¹⁴ Neither should you have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither should you have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. ¹⁵ For the day of the LORD is near on all the heathen: as you have done, it will be done to you: your reward will return on your own head. ¹⁶ For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the heathen drink continually, yes, they will drink, and they will swallow down, and they will be as even though they have not been. ¹⁷ But on mount Zion will be deliverance, and there will be holiness; and the house of Jacob will possess their possessions. ¹⁸ And the house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they will kindle in them, and devour them; and there will not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken [it]. ¹⁹ And they of the south will possess the mount of Esau; and they 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 the captivity of this host of the children of Israel will possess that of the Canaanites, even to Zarephas; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the south. ²¹ And saviours will come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau and the kingdom will be the LORD'S.