Online Bible in Modern English The Book of the Twelve Obadiah
God’s Coming Judgment on Edom *Outline Headers are added as a study aid only, and should not be considered as part of the actual Biblical text
The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord The Hebrew word translated “Lord” is “Adonai” Yahweh Yahweh is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” says about Edom.
We have heard news
from Yahweh,
and an ambassador is sent among the nations,
saying,
“Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.
Behold, I have made you small among the nations.
You are greatly
despised.
The pride of your heart has deceived you,
you who dwell in the
clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high,
who says in his
heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
Though you mount on high as the eagle,
and though your nest is
set among the stars,
I will bring you down from there,”
says
Yahweh.
“If thieves came to you,
if robbers by night—oh,
what disaster
awaits you—
wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough?
If
grape pickers came to you,
wouldn’t they leave some gleaning
grapes?
How Esau will be ransacked!
How his hidden treasures are sought
out!
All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way,
even
to the border.
The men who were at peace with you have deceived
you,
and prevailed against you.
Friends who eat your bread lay a
snare under you.
There is no understanding in him.”
“Won’t I in that day,” says Yahweh,
“destroy the wise men out of
Edom,
and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?
Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed,
so that
everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
Reason for Edom’s Punishment: Violence against Judah
For the violence done to your brother Jacob,
shame will cover
you,
and you will be cut off forever.
In the day that you stood on the other side,
in the day that
strangers carried away his substance,
and foreigners entered
into his gates,
and cast lots for Jerusalem,
even you were like
one of them.
But don’t look down on your brother
in the day of his disaster,
and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah
in the day of their
destruction.
Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.
Don’t enter into the gate of my people
in the day of their
calamity.
Don’t look down on their affliction
in the day of
their calamity,
neither seize their wealth
on the day of their
calamity.
Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off
those of his who
escape.
Don’t deliver up those of his
who remain in the day of
distress.
The Coming Judgment of the Nations on the Day of the Lord
For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations!
As you have done,
it will be done to you.
Your deeds will return upon your own
head.
For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
so will all the
nations drink continually.
Yes, they will drink, swallow down,
and will be as though they had not been.
But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape,
and it will
be holy.
The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
The house of Jacob will be a fire,
the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau for stubble.
They will burn among them,
and devour them.
There will not be any remaining to the house of
Esau.”
Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
Future Restoration of Israel
Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau,
and those
of the lowland, the land of the Philistines.
They will possess the field of
Ephraim, and the field of Samaria.
Benjamin will possess Gilead.
The captives of this army of the children of Israel,
who are
among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath;
and the
captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad,
will possess the
cities of the Negev.
Saviors will go up on Mount Zion
to judge the mountains of Esau,
and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.