Thematic Bible
Obadiah 1:1 (show verse)
Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Edom, A report we have heard from Jehovah, And an ambassador among nations was sent, 'Rise, yea, let us rise against her for battle.'
Obadiah 1:2 (show verse)
Lo, little I have made thee among nations, Despised art thou exceedingly.
Obadiah 1:3 (show verse)
The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, O dweller in clifts of a rock, (A high place is his habitation, He is saying in his heart, 'Who doth bring me down to earth?')
Obadiah 1:4 (show verse)
If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Obadiah 1:5 (show verse)
If thieves have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings?
Obadiah 1:6 (show verse)
How hath Esau been searched out! Flowed out have his hidden things,
Obadiah 1:7 (show verse)
Unto the border sent thee have all thine allies, Forgotten thee, prevailed over thee, have thy friends, Thy bread they make a snare under thee, There is no understanding in him!
Obadiah 1:8 (show verse)
Is it not in that day -- an affirmation of Jehovah, That I have destroyed the wise out of Edom, And understanding out of the mount of Esau?
Obadiah 1:9 (show verse)
And broken down have been thy mighty ones, O Teman, So that every one of the mount of Esau is cut off.
Obadiah 1:10 (show verse)
For slaughter, for violence to thy brother Jacob, Cover thee doth shame, And thou hast been cut off -- to the age.
Obadiah 1:11 (show verse)
In the day of thy standing over-against, In the day of strangers taking captive his force, And foreigners have entered his gates, And for Jerusalem have cast a lot, Even thou art as one of them!
Obadiah 1:12 (show verse)
And -- thou dost not look on the day of thy brother, On the day of his alienation, Nor dost thou rejoice over sons of Judah, In the day of their destruction, Nor make great thy mouth in a day of distress.
Obadiah 1:13 (show verse)
Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, Nor look, even thou, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, Nor send forth against its force in a day of its calamity,
Obadiah 1:14 (show verse)
Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, Nor deliver up its remnant in a day of distress.
Obadiah 1:15 (show verse)
For near is the day of Jehovah, on all the nations, As thou hast done, it is done to thee, Thy deed doth turn back on thine own head.
Obadiah 1:16 (show verse)
For -- as ye have drunk on My holy mount, Drink do all the nations continually, And they have drunk and have swallowed, And they have been as they have not been.
Obadiah 1:17 (show verse)
And in mount Zion there is an escape, And it hath been holy, And the house of Jacob have possessed their possessions.
Obadiah 1:18 (show verse)
And the house of Jacob hath been a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame, And the house of Esau for stubble, And they have burned among them, And they have consumed them, And there is not a remnant to the house of Esau, For Jehovah hath spoken.
Obadiah 1:19 (show verse)
And they have possessed the south with the mount of Esau, And the low country with the Philistines, And they have possessed the field of Ephraim, And the field of Samaria, And Benjamin with Gilead.
Obadiah 1:20 (show verse)
And the removed of this force of the sons of Israel, That is with the Canaanites unto Zarephat, And the removed of Jerusalem that is with the Sepharad, Possess the cities of the south.
Obadiah 1:21 (show verse)
And gone up have saviours on mount Zion, To judge the mount of Esau, And the kingdom hath been to Jehovah!'