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Let us rise up against her to fight!”</p> <p class="heading">God’s Announcement to Edom</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Look! I will make you insignificant among the nations;</p> <p class="poetry2">you will be utterly despised.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The arrogance in your heart has deceived you,</p> <p class="poetry2">who inhabit hidden places on rocky cliffs,</p> <p class="poetry2">whose dwelling is in the heights,</p> <p class="poetry2">who say continuously to yourself,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3 Lit. continually in your heart">c</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Though you soar high like the eagle</p> <p class="poetry2">and make your nest among the stars,</p> <p class="poetry2">I will bring you down even from there,”</p> <p class="poetry2">declares the LORD.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4 Cf. Jer 49:14-16">d</a></span> </p> <p class="heading">The Harvest from Edom’s Arrogance</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“If thieves came against you,</p> <p class="poetry2">if marauding gangs by night</p> <p class="poetry2">—Oh, how you will be destroyed!—</p> <p class="poetry2">Would they not steal only until they had enough?</p> <p class="poetry2">If grape pickers came to you,</p> <p class="poetry2">would they not leave some<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="5 The Heb. lacks some">e</a></span> grapes to be gleaned?</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Oh, how Esau is ransacked,</p> <p class="poetry2">how his hidden treasures are thoroughly<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="6 The Heb. lacks thoroughly">f</a></span> searched out!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>All your allies will force you out of the land,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7 Lit. out to the border">g</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">your associates will deceive you and prevail against you.</p> <p class="poetry2">Your friends<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7 Lit. Your bread; i.e. those who eat your bread">h</a></span> will lay out a trap for you,</p> <p class="poetry2">and you will<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7 The Heb. lacks you will">i</a></span> never understand it!</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“In that day,” declares the LORD,</p> <p class="poetry2">“will I not destroy the wise from Edom,</p> <p class="poetry2">and those with understanding from Esau’s Mountain?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Teman, our mighty soldiers will be dismayed,</p> <p class="poetry2">so that every man from Esau’s Mountain will be slaughtered.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title=" 9 Lit. will be cut off by slaughter">j</a></span> </p> <p class="heading">Judgment for Edom’s Cruelty to Jacob</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Shame will overwhelm you</p> <p class="poetry2">because of the violence you inflicted on your brother Jacob,</p> <p class="poetry2">and you will be excluded<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10 Lit. cut off">k</a></span> forever.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“On the day you just stood by,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11 Or stood in opposition">l</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">when<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11 Lit. in the day">m</a></span> strangers carried away Jacob’s<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11 Lit. his">n</a></span> wealth</p> <p class="poetry2">and foreigners entered his gates,</p> <p class="poetry2">casting lots for Jerusalem,</p> <p class="poetry2">you were just like one of them.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“You should not have gloated over your brother,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12 Lit. in the day of your brother">o</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">on the day of his calamity.</p> <p class="poetry2">You should not have rejoiced</p> <p class="poetry2">when<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12 Lit. in the day">p</a></span> the descendants of Judah were perishing.</p> <p class="poetry2">You should not have boasted<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12 Lit. have let your mouth boast">q</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">when<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12 Lit. in the day">r</a></span> they were in distress.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“You should not have entered the gate of my people</p> <p class="poetry2">on the day of their disaster.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13 The Heb. words their disaster may be a word play on the Heb. word Edom">s</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">Also, you should not have gloated over Judah’s<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13 Lit. his">t</a></span> misfortune</p> <p class="poetry2">on the day of his disaster,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13 The Heb. words his disaster may be a word play on the Heb. word Edom">u</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">nor should you have plundered his wealth</p> <p class="poetry2">on the day of his disaster.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13 The Heb. words his disaster may be a word play on the Heb. word Edom">v</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And you should not have taken your stand at the crossroads</p> <p class="poetry2">to cut down his fleeing refugees,</p> <p class="poetry2">nor should you have handed over his survivors</p> <p class="poetry2">on the day of his distress.”</p> <p class="heading">The LORD’s Judgment and Israel’s Final Victory</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Indeed, the Day of the LORD approaches all nations.</p> <p class="poetry2">As you have done it will be done to you—</p> <p class="poetry2">your deeds will return to haunt you!<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="15 Lit. return on your own head">w</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Just as you have drunk from the cup of my wrath<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16 The Heb. lacks from the cup of my wrath">x</a></span> upon my holy mountain,</p> <p class="poetry2">so will all nations drink from the cup of my wrath<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16 The Heb. lacks from the cup of my wrath">y</a></span> perpetually.</p> <p class="poetry2">They will drink, they will gulp it down,</p> <p class="poetry2">and they will be as if they had never existed!</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“But there will be a delivered remnant on Mount Zion.</p> <p class="poetry2">There will be holiness,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the house of Jacob will take back their possessions.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“The house of Jacob will be a fire,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the house of Joseph a flame,</p> <p class="poetry2">but the house of Esau will be kindling.</p> <p class="poetry2">Then Jacob and Joseph<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18 Lit. They">z</a></span> will burn and consume Esau,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="18 Lit. them">aa</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.”</p> <p class="poetry2">Indeed, the LORD has spoken it.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Those in the Negev<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19 i.e. the southern regions of the Sinai peninsula; cf. Josh 10:40">bb</a></span> will possess Esau’s Mountain,</p> <p class="poetry2">and those in the Shephelah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19 i.e. the verdant central lowlands of Israel; cf. Josh 10:40">cc</a></span> the Philistines.</p> <p class="poetry2">They will possess the fields of Ephraim</p> <p class="poetry2">and the fields of Samaria,</p> <p class="poetry2">while Benjamin will possess the territory of<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19 The Heb. lacks will possess the territory of">dd</a></span> Gilead.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The exiles, the Israeli host,</p> <p class="poetry2">will possess the territory of the<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="20 The Heb. lacks the territory of">ee</a></span> Canaanites all the way to Zarephath.</p> <p class="poetry2">The exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="20 i.e. perhaps Sardis, capital of Lydia, Saparda in eastern Assyria, Sparta in Greece, or a location in Spain (so Targ of Jonathan)">ff</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">will possess the cities of the Negev.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="20 i.e. the southern regions of the Sinai peninsula; cf. Josh 10:40">gg</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Deliverers will assemble on Mount Zion to judge Esau’s Mountain,</p> <p class="poetry2">and to the LORD will the kingdom belong!”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 1 The Heb. name <i>Obadiah</i> means <i>Servant of the L</i>ORD<br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 1 The Heb. lacks <i>to say</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 3 Lit. <i>continually in your heart</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 4 Cf. Jer 49:14-16<br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 5 The Heb. lacks <i>some</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 6 The Heb. lacks <i>thoroughly</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 7 Lit. <i>out to the border</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 7 Lit. <i>Your bread</i>; i.e. those who eat your bread<br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 7 The Heb. lacks <i>you will</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 9 Lit. <i>will be cut off by slaughter</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 10 Lit. <i>cut off</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 11 Or <i>stood in opposition</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 11 Lit. <i>in the day</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 11 Lit. <i>his</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 12 Lit. <i>in the day of your brother</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 12 Lit. <i>in the day</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 12 Lit. <i>have let your mouth boast</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 12 Lit. <i>in the day</i><br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 13 The Heb. words <i>their disaster</i> may be a word play on the Heb. word <i>Edom</i><br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 13 Lit. <i>his</i><br /><span class="fnb">u</span> 13 The Heb. words <i>his disaster</i> may be a word play on the Heb. word <i>Edom</i><br /><span class="fnb">v</span> 13 The Heb. words <i>his disaster</i> may be a word play on the Heb. word <i>Edom</i><br /><span class="fnb">w</span> 15 Lit. <i>return on your own head</i><br /><span class="fnb">x</span> 16 The Heb. lacks <i>from the cup of my wrath</i><br /><span class="fnb">y</span> 16 The Heb. lacks <i>from the cup of my wrath</i><br /><span class="fnb">z</span> 18 Lit. <i>They</i><br /><span class="fnb">aa</span> 18 Lit. <i>them</i><br /><span class="fnb">bb</span> 19 i.e. the southern regions of the Sinai peninsula; cf. Josh 10:40<br /><span class="fnb">cc</span> 19 i.e. the verdant central lowlands of Israel; cf. Josh 10:40<br /><span class="fnb">dd</span> 19 The Heb. lacks <i>will possess the territory of</i><br /><span class="fnb">ee</span> 20 The Heb. lacks <i>the territory of</i><br /><span class="fnb">ff</span> 20 i.e. perhaps Sardis, capital of Lydia, Saparda in eastern Assyria, Sparta in Greece, or a location in Spain (so <i>Targ of Jonathan</i>)<br /><span class="fnb">gg</span> 20 i.e. the southern regions of the Sinai peninsula; cf. 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