¹ The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord Jehovih^* as·​·to Edom; We have heard a report from Jehovah, and an ambassador is sent among^◦ the nations, Rise· ye ·up, and let us Rise·​·up against her into^◦ battle.

² Behold, I have made thee small among^◦ the nations; thou^◦ art exceedingly despised.

³ The presumptuousness of^◦ thy heart has beguiled thee, thou who inhabitest the fissures of the rock^◦, on·​·high is his dwelling; saying in his heart, Who shall bring· me ·down to the earth?

⁴ If thou make· thyself ·lofty as the eagle, and if thou set thy nest between the stars, thence will I bring· thee ·down, says^◦ Jehovah.

⁵ If thieves came to thee, if devastators by night—oh, how^◦ thou wilt be cut·​·off^◦—would they not steal until they had enough? If the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave a cluster for the gleaning?

⁶ How^◦ are the things of Esau searched out!—his secret things discovered!

⁷ All the men^◦ of thy covenant have sent· thee ·away even·​·to the border; the men^◦ of thy peace have beguiled thee, and prevailed^◦ against^▵ thee; thy bread they have set as a wound^◦ under thee. There is no understanding in him.

⁸ Shall I not in that^◦ day, says^◦ Jehovah, even make· the wise men out·​·of Edom ·perish, and understanding out·​·of the mountain of Esau?

⁹ And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be·​·dismayed, so·​·that a man^◦ from the mountain of Esau may be cut·​·off by killing^◦.

¹⁰ For thy violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut·​·off for eternity.

¹¹ In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers took· his forces ·captive, and foreigners came into his gates, and cast^▵ lots upon Jerusalem, even thou^◦ wast as one of them^◦.

¹² But thou shouldest not have looked^◦ on in the day of thy brother, in the day that he became a foreigner; and thou shouldest not have·​·been·​·glad over the sons of Judah in the day they perished; and thou shouldest not have magnified thy mouth in the day of adversity.

¹³ Thou shouldest not have come into the gate of My people in the day of their downfall; even thou^◦ shouldest not have looked^◦ on their evil in the day of his downfall, and thou shouldest not have put·​·forth^◦ hands on his belongings in the day of his downfall;

¹⁴ neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut·​·off those of his who escaped^◦; neither shouldest thou have closed·​·in those his survivors in the day of adversity.

¹⁵ For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations; as^◦ thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy recompense shall return upon^◦ thine own head.

¹⁶ For as^◦ you have drunk upon the mountain of My holiness, so shall all the nations drink continually, and they shall drink, and they shall swallow·​·down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

¹⁷ But upon^◦ Mount Zion shall be escape^◦, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

¹⁸ 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 inflame them, and devour them; and there shall not be a survivor for the house of Esau; for Jehovah has spoken.

¹⁹ And they of the south shall possess the mountain of Esau, and they of the lowland the Philistines; and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria; and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

²⁰ And the exile of this host of^◦ the sons of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even·​·to Zarephath; and the exile of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.

²¹ And saviours shall come·​·up on^◦ Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau; and the kingdom shall be Jehovah’s.

¹ The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,

² Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us: perhaps Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.

³ Then Jeremiah said to them, You shall tell Zedekiah:

⁴ Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this city.

⁵ I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation.

⁶ I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: they shall die of a great pestilence.

⁷ Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

⁸ To this people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

⁹ He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.

¹⁰ For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good, says Yahweh: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

¹¹ Touching the house of the king of Judah, hear the word of Yahweh:

¹² House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

¹³ Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] of the rock of the plain, says Yahweh; you that say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

¹⁴ I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her.