Obadiah 1

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Obadiah 1

Edom’s Certain Judgment

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1} The vision of Obadiah.

This is what the Lord God has said about Edom:^(A)

We have heard a message from the Lord;^(B)
a messenger has been sent^(C) among the nations:
“Rise up,^(D) and let us go to war against her.”^(a)

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Look, I will make you insignificant^(E)
among the nations;
you will be deeply despised.

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Your presumptuous heart has deceived you,^(F)
you who live in clefts of the rock^(b)^(c)^(G)
in your home on the heights,
who say to yourself,
“Who can bring me down to the ground?”^(H)

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Though you seem to soar^(d) like an eagle^(I)
and make your nest among the stars,^(J)
even from there I will bring you down.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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If thieves came to you,^(K)
if marauders by night—
how ravaged you would be!—
wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
wouldn’t they leave some grapes?^(L)

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How Esau will be pillaged,^(M)
his hidden treasures searched out!^(N)

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Everyone who has a treaty with you^(O)
will drive you to the border;
everyone at peace with you
will deceive and conquer you.
Those who eat your bread^(P)
will set^(e) a trap for you.
He will be unaware of it.^(Q)

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In that day—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom^(R)
and those who understand
from the hill country of Esau?

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Teman,^(f)^(S) your warriors^(T) will be terrified
so that everyone from the hill country of Esau
will be destroyed by slaughter.^(U)

Edom’s Sins against Judah

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You will be covered with shame
and destroyed forever
because of violence done to your brother Jacob.^(V)

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On the day you stood aloof,^(W)
on the day strangers captured his wealth,^(g)
while foreigners entered his gate
and cast lots for Jerusalem,^(X)
you were just like one of them.^(Y)

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Do not^(h) gloat over your brother^(Z)
in the day of his calamity;
do not rejoice over the people of Judah^(AA)
in the day of their destruction;
do not boastfully mock⁽ⁱ⁾^(AB)
in the day of distress.^(AC)

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Do not enter the gate of My people
in the day of their disaster.^(AD)
Yes, you—do not gloat over their misery
in the day of their disaster
and do not appropriate their possessions^(AE)
in the day of their disaster.

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Do not stand at the crossroads^(j)^(AF)
to cut off their fugitives,
and do not hand over their survivors
in the day of distress.

Judgment of the Nations

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For the Day of the Lord^(AG) is near,
against all the nations.^(AH)
As you have done,^(AI) so it will be done to you;
what you deserve will return on your own head.^(AJ)

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As you have drunk on My holy mountain,^(AK)
so all the nations will drink continually.^(AL)
They will drink and gulp down
and be as though they had never been.

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But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion,^(AM)
and it will be holy;^(AN)
the house of Jacob will dispossess^(AO)
those who dispossessed them.^(k)^(AP)

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Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,^(AQ)
and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,
but the house of Esau will be stubble;
Jacob^(l) will set them on fire and consume Edom.^(m)
Therefore no survivor will remain^(AR)
of the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.

Future Blessing for Israel

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People from the Negev will possess^(AS)
the hill country of Esau;^(AT)
those from the Judean foothills will possess
the land of the Philistines.^(AU)
They⁽ⁿ⁾ will possess
the territories of Ephraim and Samaria,^(AV)
while Benjamin will possess Gilead.

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The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah^(o)
and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath^(AW)
as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the cities of the Negev.^(AX)

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Saviors^(p) will ascend Mount Zion^(AY)
to rule over the hill country of Esau,
but the kingdom will be the Lord’s.^(AZ)

Footnotes:

a. Obadiah 1:1: Edom

b. Obadiah 1:3: Or in Sela; probably Petra

c. Obadiah 1:3: Probably Petra

d. Obadiah 1:4: Or to build high

e. Obadiah 1:7: Some LXX mss, Sym, Tg, Vg; MT reads They will set your bread as

f. Obadiah 1:9: a region or city in Edom

g. Obadiah 1:11: Or forces

h. Obadiah 1:12: Or You should not throughout vv. 12-14

i. Obadiah 1:12: Lit not make your mouth big

j. Obadiah 1:14: Hb obscure

k. Obadiah 1:17: DSS, LXX, Syr, Vg, Tg; MT reads Jacob will possess its inheritance

l. Obadiah 1:18: Lit they

m. Obadiah 1:18: Lit them

n. Obadiah 1:19: The house of Jacob

o. Obadiah 1:20: Or of this host of the Israelites; Hb obscure

p. Obadiah 1:21: Or Those who have been delivered

Cross references:

A. Obadiah 1:1: Genesis 25:30; Psalm 137:7; Isaiah 21:11-12; Isaiah 34:1-17; Isaiah 63:1-6; Ezekiel 25:12-14; Amos 1:11-12; Malachi 1:2-5

B. Obadiah 1:1: Jeremiah 49:14-16

C. Obadiah 1:1: Isaiah 18:2; Isaiah 30:4

D. Obadiah 1:1: Jeremiah 6:4-5

E. Obadiah 1:2: Numbers 24:18; Isaiah 23:9

F. Obadiah 1:3: Isaiah 16:6

G. Obadiah 1:3: 2 Chronicles 25:12

H. Obadiah 1:3: Isaiah 14:13-15

I. Obadiah 1:4: Job 20:6-7; Habakkuk 2:9

J. Obadiah 1:4: Isaiah 14:12-15

K. Obadiah 1:5: Jeremiah 49:9

L. Obadiah 1:5: Leviticus 19:10; Leviticus 25:5; Leviticus 25:11

M. Obadiah 1:6: Jeremiah 49:10

N. Obadiah 1:6: Malachi 1:2-3

O. Obadiah 1:7: Psalm 55:20; Jeremiah 30:14; Amos 1:9

P. Obadiah 1:7: Psalm 41:9

Q. Obadiah 1:7: Jeremiah 49:7

R. Obadiah 1:8: Job 4:1; Job 5:12-14

S. Obadiah 1:9: Genesis 36:11; 1 Chronicles 1:45; Job 2:11; Habakkuk 3:3

T. Obadiah 1:9: Jeremiah 49:22

U. Obadiah 1:9: Isaiah 34:5-8; Isaiah 63:1-3; Jeremiah 49:7; Jeremiah 49:20; Ezekiel 25:13; Amos 1:12; Obadiah 1:5

V. Obadiah 1:10: Ezekiel 25:12-14; Joel 3:19; Amos 1:11

W. Obadiah 1:11: Psalm 83:5-6; Psalm 137:7; Amos 1:6; Amos 1:9

X. Obadiah 1:11: Joel 3:3; Nahum 3:10

Y. Obadiah 1:11: 2 Chronicles 21:17; Ezekiel 35:10

Z. Obadiah 1:12: Micah 4:11; Micah 7:10

AA. Obadiah 1:12: Psalm 83:1-6; Psalm 137:7-9; Ezekiel 35:15; Ezekiel 36:5

AB. Obadiah 1:12: Psalm 31:18; Ezekiel 35:12

AC. Obadiah 1:12: Genesis 35:3; Psalm 50:15; Jeremiah 16:19

AD. Obadiah 1:13: Ezekiel 35:5

AE. Obadiah 1:13: Ezekiel 35:10; Ezekiel 36:2-3

AF. Obadiah 1:14: Isaiah 16:3-4

AG. Obadiah 1:15: Joel 1:15; Joel 2:1; Joel 2:11; Joel 2:31; Amos 5:18; Amos 5:20

AH. Obadiah 1:15: Isaiah 13:6; Joel 3:14; Joel 3:14

AI. Obadiah 1:15: Jeremiah 50:29; Jeremiah 51:56

AJ. Obadiah 1:15: Jeremiah 50:15; Ezekiel 35:11

AK. Obadiah 1:16: Jeremiah 49:12

AL. Obadiah 1:16: Isaiah 51:22-23

AM. Obadiah 1:17: Isaiah 4:2-3

AN. Obadiah 1:16: Isaiah 66:20; Joel 2:32

AO. Obadiah 1:17: Isaiah 14:1-2; Amos 9:11-15

AP. Obadiah 1:17: Ezekiel 36:2-5

AQ. Obadiah 1:18: Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 9:18-19; Amos 1:12

AR. Obadiah 1:18: Jeremiah 11:23

AS. Obadiah 1:19: Isaiah 11:14

AT. Obadiah 1:19: Amos 9:11-12

AU. Obadiah 1:19: Isaiah 11:14

AV. Obadiah 1:19: Jeremiah 31:5; Jeremiah 32:44

AW. Obadiah 1:20: Luke 4:26

AX. Obadiah 1:20: Jeremiah 32:44; Jeremiah 33:13

AY. Obadiah 1:21: Nehemiah 9:27; Isaiah 4:5; Isaiah 18:7; Isaiah 24:23; Daniel 2:44

AZ. Obadiah 1:21: Psalm 22:28; Psalm 47:7-9; Psalm 67:4