1. The vision of Obadiah. Thus says my Lord Yahweh concerning Edom: We have heard a report from Yahweh, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up and let us rise against it for battle.”
2. “Look, I will make you insignificant among the nations. You will be utterly despised!
3. The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of a rock, the heights of its dwelling, you who say in your heart: ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
4. Even if you soar like the eagle, even if your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down!” declares Yahweh:
5. “If thieves came to you, if plunderers of the night—How you have been destroyed!—would they not steal what they wanted? If grape gatherers came, would they not leave gleanings?
6. How Esau has been pillaged; his treasures have been ransacked!
7. All of your allies have driven you up to the boundary; your confederates have deceived you and have prevailed against you. Those who eat your bread have set an ambush for you, there is no understanding of it.
8. On that day,” declares Yahweh, “will I not destroy the wise men from Edom, and understanding from the mountain of Esau?
9. And your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone from the mountain of Esau will be cut off because of the slaughter!
10. “Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you and you will be cut off forever.
11. On the day you stood nearby, on the day strangers took his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots over Jerusalem, you were also like one of them.
12. But you should not have gloated over your brother’s day, on the day of his misfortune, and you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah on the day of their perishing, and you should not have opened your mouth wide on the day of distress.
13. You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their disaster. You also should not have gloated over his misery on the day of his disaster, and you should not have stretched out your hands on the day of his disaster.
14. And you should not have stood at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives and you should not have handed over his survivors on the day of distress.