Obadiah 1:2-9 - Edom's Certain Judgment

² “Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
You are greatly despised.
³ “The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
You who live in the clefts of the rock,
In the loftiness of your dwelling place,
Who say in your heart,
‘Who will bring me down to earth?’
⁴ “Though you build high like the eagle,
Though you set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

⁵ “If thieves came to you,
If robbers by night—
O how you will be ruined!—
Would they not steal only until they had enough?
If grape gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave some gleanings?
⁶ “O how Esau will be ransacked,
And his hidden treasures searched out!
⁷ “All the men allied with you
Will send you forth to the border,
And the men at peace with you
Will deceive you and overpower you.
They who eat your bread
Will set an ambush for you.
(There is no understanding in him.)
⁸ “Will I not on that day,” declares the Lord,
“Destroy wise men from Edom
And understanding from the mountain of Esau?
⁹ “Then your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman,
So that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.