1The vision of Obadiah.
Edom’s Certain Judgment
This is what the Lord God has said about Edom: Gn 25:30; Ps 137:7; Is 21:11-12; 34:1-17; 63:1-6; Ezk 25:12-14; Am 1:11-12; Mal 1:2-5
We have heard a message from the Lord; Jr 49:14-16
a messenger has been sent Is 18:2; 30:4 among the nations:
“Rise up, Jr 6:4-5 and let us go to war against her.” = Edom
2Look, I will make you insignificant Nm 24:18; Is 23:9
among the nations;
you will be deeply despised.
3Your presumptuous heart has deceived you, Is 16:6
you who live in clefts of the rock Or in Sela ; probably = Petra Probably Petra 2Kg 14:7; 2Ch 25:12
in your home on the heights,
who say to yourself,
“Who can bring me down to the ground? ” Is 14:13-15
and make your nest among the stars, Is 14:12-15
even from there I will bring you down.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
5If thieves came to you, Jr 49:9
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? Lv 19:10; 25:5,11
6How Esau will be pillaged, Jr 49:10
his hidden treasures searched out! Mal 1:2-3
7Everyone who has a treaty with you Ps 55:20; Jr 30:14; Am 1:9
will drive you to the border;
everyone at peace with you
will deceive and conquer you.
Those who eat your bread Ps 41:9
will set Some LXX mss, Sym, Tg, Vg; MT reads They will set your bread as a trap for you.
He will be unaware of it. Jr 49:7
8In that day —
this is the Lord’s declaration —
will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom Jb 4:1; 5:12-14
and those who understand
from the hill country of Esau?
9Teman, = a region or city in Edom Gn 36:11; 1Ch 1:45; Jb 2:11; Hab 3:3 your warriors Jr 49:22 will be terrified
so that everyone from the hill country of Esau
will be destroyed by slaughter. Is 34:5-8; 63:1-3; Jr 49:7,20; Ezk 25:13; Am 1:12; Ob 5
Edom’s Sins against Judah
10You will be covered with shame
and destroyed forever
because of violence done to your brother Jacob. Ezk 25:12-14; Jl 3:19; Am 1:11
11On the day you stood aloof, Ps 83:5-6; 137:7; Am 1:6,9
on the day strangers captured his wealth, Or forces
while foreigners entered his gate
and cast lots for Jerusalem, Jl 3:3; Nah 3:10
you were just like one of them. 2Ch 21:17; Ezk 35:10
in the day of his calamity;
do not rejoice over the people of Judah Ps 83:1-6; 137:7-9; Lm 4:21-22; Ezk 35:15; 36:5
in the day of their destruction;
do not boastfully mock Lit not make your mouth big Ps 31:18; Ezk 35:12
in the day of distress. Gn 35:3; Ps 50:15; Jr 16:19
13Do not enter the gate of My people
in the day of their disaster. Ezk 35:5
Yes, you — do not gloat over their misery
in the day of their disaster
and do not appropriate their possessions Ezk 35:10; 36:2-3
in the day of their disaster.
to cut off their fugitives,
and do not hand over their survivors
in the day of distress.
Judgment of the Nations
against all the nations. Is 13:6; Jl 3:14; Zph 1:7,14
As you have done, Jr 50:29; 51:56 so it will be done to you;
what you deserve will return on your own head. Jr 50:15; Ezk 35:11
16As you have drunk on My holy mountain, Jr 49:12
so all the nations will drink continually. Is 51:22-23
They will drink and gulp down
and be as though they had never been.
17But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion, Is 4:2-3
and it will be holy; Is 66:20; Jl 2:32
the house of Jacob will dispossess Is 14:1-2; Am 9:11-15
those who dispossessed them. DSS, LXX, Syr, Vg, Tg; MT reads Jacob will possess its inheritance Ezk 36:2-5
18Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, Is 5:24; 9:18-19; Am 1:12; Zch 12:6
and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,
but the house of Esau will be stubble;
Jacob Lit they will set them on fire and consume Edom. Lit them
Therefore no survivor will remain Jr 11:23
of the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.
Future Blessing for Israel
19People from the Negev will possess Is 11:14
the hill country of Esau; Am 9:11-12
those from the Judean foothills will possess
the land of the Philistines. Is 11:14
They = The house of Jacob will possess
the territories of Ephraim and Samaria, Jr 31:5; 32:44
while Benjamin will possess Gilead.
20The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah Or of this host of the Israelites ; Hb obscure
and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath 1Kg 17:9-10; Lk 4:26
as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the cities of the Negev. Jr 32:44; 33:13
21Saviors Or Those who have been delivered will ascend Mount Zion Neh 9:27; Is 4:5; 18:7; 24:23; Dn 2:44; Mc 4:7
to rule over the hill country of Esau,
but the kingdom will be the Lord’s. Ps 22:28; 47:7-9; 67:4; Zch 14:9
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