The
vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a
rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye,
and let us rise up against her in battle. Behold, I have made thee small among
the heathen: thou art greatly despised. The pride of thine heart hath deceived
thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high;
that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? Though thou
exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars,
thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD. If thieves came to thee, if
robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they
had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some
grapes? How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things
sought up! All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border:
the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against
thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none
understanding in him. Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the
wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? And thy
mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount
of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. For thy violence against thy brother Jacob
shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. In the day that
thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away
captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon
Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. But thou shouldest not have looked on
the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest
thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction;
neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. Thou
shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their
calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of
their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their
calamity; Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those
of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his
that did remain in the day of distress. For the day of the LORD is near upon
all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward
shall return upon thine own head. For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain,
so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they
shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. But upon
mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of
Jacob shall possess their possessions. And the house of Jacob shall be a fire,
and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they
shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of
the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it. And they of the south shall
possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they
shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin
shall possess Gilead. And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel
shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of
Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. And
saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the
kingdom shall be the LORD'S.