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Book of Obadiah with Commentary
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Obadiah 1
The Coming Judgment on Edom
1 The vision of Obadiah.
Thus says the Lord
GOD concerning Edom
(We have heard a
report from the LORD,
And a messenger has
been sent among the nations, saying,
“ Arise,
and let us rise up against her for battle”):
2
“ Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
You shall be greatly
despised.
3 The
pride of your heart has deceived you,
You who dwell in the
clefts of the rock,
Whose habitation is
high;
Youwho say in your
heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
4 Though
you ascend as high as the eagle,
And though you set
your nest among the stars,
From there I will
bring you down,” says the LORD.
5
“ If thieves had come to you,
If robbers by
night—
Oh, how you will be
cut off!—
Would they not have
stolen till they had enough?
If grape-gatherers
had come to you,
Would they not have
left some gleanings?
6
“ Oh, how Esau shall be searched out!
How his hidden
treasures shall be sought after!
7 All the
men in your confederacy
Shall force you to
the border;
The men at peace
with you
Shall deceive you
and prevail against you.
Those who eat your
bread shall lay a trap[a] for you.
No one is aware of
it.
8
“ Will I not in that day,” says the LORD,
“ Even
destroy the wise men from Edom,
And understanding
from the mountains of Esau?
9 Then
your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed,
To the end that
everyone from the mountains of Esau
May be cut off by
slaughter.
Edom Mistreated His Brother
10 “ For violence against your
brother Jacob,
Shame shall cover
you,
And you shall be cut
off forever.
11 In the
day that you stood on the other side—
In the day that
strangers carried captive his forces,
When foreigners
entered his gates
And cast lots for
Jerusalem—
Even you were as one
of them.
12
“ But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother
In the day of his
captivity;[b]
Nor should you have
rejoiced over the children of Judah
In the day of their
destruction;
Nor should you have
spoken proudly
In the day of
distress.
13 You
should not have entered the gate of My people
In the day of their
calamity.
Indeed, you should
not have gazed on their affliction
In the day of their
calamity,
Nor laid hands on
their substance
In the day of their
calamity.
14 You
should not have stood at the crossroads
To cut off those
among them who escaped;
Nor should you have
delivered up those among them who remained
In the day of
distress.
15
“ For the day of the LORD upon all the nations is near;
As you have done, it
shall be done to you;
Your reprisal shall
return upon your own head.
16 For as
you drank on My holy mountain,
So shall all the
nations drink continually;
Yes, they shall
drink, and swallow,
And they shall be as
though they had never been.
Israel’s Final Triumph
17 “ But on Mount Zion there
shall be deliverance,
And there shall be
holiness;
The house of Jacob
shall possess their possessions.
18 The
house of Jacob shall be a fire,
And the house of
Joseph a flame;
But the house of
Esau shall be stubble;
They shall kindle
them and devour them,
And no survivor
shall remain of the house of Esau,”
For the LORD has
spoken.
19 The
South[c] shall possess the mountains of Esau,
And the Lowland
shall possess Philistia.
They shall possess
the fields of Ephraim
And the fields of
Samaria.
Benjamin shall
possess Gilead.
20 And the
captives of this host of the children of Israel
Shall possess the
land of the Canaanites
As far as Zarephath.
The captives of
Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
Shall possess the
cities of the South.[d]
21 Then
saviors[e] shall come to Mount Zion
To judge the
mountains of Esau,
And the kingdom
shall be the LORD’s.
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