1 The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom. We have heard news from the LORD, and a herald has been dispatched among the nations: "Get up! Let us go up against her in battle!"
2 I am going to make you tiny among the nations; you will be held in deep contempt.
3 Your proud heart has misled you, you who nest in the crevices of the crag and make your home on high, who say to yourself, "Who can bring me down to the earth?"
4 Even if you build your nest as high as the eagle's, even if it is set among the stars, I will pull you down from there, declares the LORD.
5 Had thieves broken in on you, or raiders by night (how utterly you are ruined!), would they not have stolen just what they needed? Had grape harvesters come to you, would they not have left a few grapes behind?
6 But Esau, how he has been stripped, his secret stores rummaged through!
7 Every partner in your covenant has shoved you to the frontier; the men you were at peace with have deceived and overpowered you; those who share your bread lay a snare under you; and he does not see it.
8 On that day, declares the LORD, shall I not make the wise vanish from Edom and discernment from the mountain of Esau?
9 Your fighting men, Teman, will be shattered, so that every last man on the mountain of Esau is cut down in the slaughter.
10 For the violence against your brother Jacob you will be covered with disgrace and cut off for all time.
11 On the day you stood by at a distance, the day outsiders hauled away his goods and foreigners marched through his gates and threw lots over Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
12 You should not have stared in triumph on your brother's day, the day of his disaster; you should not have rejoiced over the children of Judah on the day of their ruin; you should not have opened your mouth wide on the day of distress.
13 You should not have marched into the gate of my people on the day of their calamity; you, of all people, should not have stared in triumph at his misery on the day of his calamity, nor reached for his goods on the day of his calamity.
14 You should not have stood at the fork of the road to cut down his fugitives, nor handed over his survivors on the day of distress.
15 For near is the day of the LORD against all the nations. What you did will be done to you; your deeds will come back down on your own head.
16 Just as you drank on my holy mountain, all the nations will keep on drinking; they will drink and swallow and be as if they had never existed.
17 But on Mount Zion there will be a rescued remnant, and it will be a holy place; and the house of Jacob will take back what is theirs.
18 Jacob's house will become a fire and Joseph's house a flame, and Esau's house will be straw; they will set it alight and burn it up, and not one survivor will remain of the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken.
19 The people of the Negev will occupy the mountain of Esau, and the people of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they will occupy the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria, and Benjamin will occupy Gilead.
20 The exiled company of the children of Israel will occupy what belongs to the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will occupy the towns of the Negev.
21 Deliverers will go up on Mount Zion to rule the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom will belong to the LORD.