Read Obadiah 1

World English Bible · 21 verses

1. ¹ The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ 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?’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ “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?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ 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.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ “Won’t I in that day”, says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org