1The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom: "We have heard a message from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying, 'Get up, and let us rise up against her in battle.'"
2Look, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.
3The pride of your heart has deceived you. You live in the clefts of the rock, and your home is high up. You say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?"
4Though you lift yourself up like the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.
5If thieves came to you, if robbers came by night (how you are ruined!), would they not steal only till they had enough? If men came to gather your grapes, would they not leave some grapes behind?
6How the things of Esau are searched out! How his hidden treasures are hunted down!
7All the men who were allied with you have driven you to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and have beaten you. Those who eat your bread have laid a wound under you. There is no understanding in him.
8On that day, says the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?
9And your strong men, Teman, will be filled with fear, so that every one from the mountain of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
10Because of your violence against your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off for ever.
11On the day you stood on the other side, on the day strangers carried away his forces, and foreigners came into his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
12But you should not have looked on the day of your brother, on the day he became a stranger. You should not have rejoiced over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction. You should not have spoken proudly on the day of distress.
13You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their disaster. Yes, you should not have looked on their suffering on the day of their disaster, nor laid hands on their goods on the day of their disaster.
14You should not have stood at the crossroads, to cut off those of his people who escaped. You should not have handed over those of his people who were left on the day of distress.
15For the day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. What you have earned will come back on your own head.
16For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink without stopping. Yes, they will drink, and they will swallow it down, and they will be as though they had never been.
17But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy; and the house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
18The house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau will be stubble. They will set them alight and burn them up. No one will be left of the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken it.
19The people of the south will possess the mountain of Esau, and the people of the plain will possess the Philistines. They will possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
20The captives of this army of the children of Israel will possess the land of the Canaanites, as far as Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the south.
21Saviours will come up on Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom will be the LORD's.