Thematic Bible
Obadiah 1:1 (show verse)
The vision of Obadiah.
This is what the Lord God has said about Edom:
We have heard a message from the Lord;
a messenger has been sent among the nations:
“Rise up, and let us go to war against her.”
This is what the Lord God has said about Edom:
a messenger has been sent
“Rise up,
Obadiah 1:2 (show verse)
among the nations;
you will be deeply despised.
Obadiah 1:3 (show verse)
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?”
Obadiah 1:4 (show verse)
and make your nest among the stars,
even from there I will bring you down.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Obadiah 1:5 (show verse)
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?
Obadiah 1:6 (show verse)
his hidden treasures searched out!
Obadiah 1:7 (show verse)
will drive you to the border;
everyone at peace with you
will deceive and conquer you.
Those who eat your bread
will set
He will be unaware of it.
Obadiah 1:8 (show verse)
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?
Obadiah 1:9 (show verse)
so that everyone from the hill country of Esau
will be destroyed by slaughter.
Obadiah 1:10 (show verse)
and destroyed forever
because of violence done to your brother Jacob.
Obadiah 1:11 (show verse)
on the day strangers captured his wealth,
while foreigners entered his gate
and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were just like one of them.
Obadiah 1:12 (show verse)
in the day of his calamity;
do not rejoice over the people of Judah
in the day of their destruction;
do not boastfully mock
in the day of distress.
Obadiah 1:13 (show verse)
in the day of their disaster.
Yes, you—do not gloat over their misery
in the day of their disaster
and do not appropriate their possessions
in the day of their disaster.
Obadiah 1:14 (show verse)
to cut off their fugitives,
and do not hand over their survivors
in the day of distress.
Obadiah 1:15 (show verse)
against all the nations.
As you have done,
what you deserve will return on your own head.
Obadiah 1:16 (show verse)
so all the nations will drink continually.
They will drink and gulp down
and be as though they had never been.
Obadiah 1:17 (show verse)
and it will be holy;
the house of Jacob will dispossess
those who dispossessed them.
Obadiah 1:18 (show verse)
and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,
but the house of Esau will be stubble;
Jacob
Therefore no survivor will remain
of the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.
Obadiah 1:19 (show verse)
the hill country of Esau;
those from the Judean foothills will possess
the land of the Philistines.
They
the territories of Ephraim and Samaria,
while Benjamin will possess Gilead.
Obadiah 1:20 (show verse)
and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath
as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the cities of the Negev.
Obadiah 1:21 (show verse)
to rule over the hill country of Esau,
but the kingdom will be the Lord’s.