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.