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

² Look, I will make you insignificant
among the nations;
you will be deeply despised.
³ Your presumptuous heart has deceived you,
you who live in clefts of the rock
in your home on the heights,
who say to yourself,
“Who can bring me down to the ground?”
⁴ Though you seem to soar like an eagle
and make your nest among the stars,
even from there I will bring you down.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

⁵ If thieves came to you,
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?
⁶ How Esau will be pillaged,
his hidden treasures searched out!
⁷ Everyone who has a treaty with you
will drive you to the border;
everyone at peace with you
will deceive and conquer you.
Those who eat your bread
will set a trap for you.
He will be unaware of it.
⁸ In that day—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom
and those who understand
from the hill country of Esau?
⁹ Teman, your warriors will be terrified
so that everyone from the hill country of Esau
will be destroyed by slaughter.