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Obadiah 1

Obadiah 1:1WEB

The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Obadiah 1:2WEB

Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

Obadiah 1:3WEB

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

Obadiah 1:4WEB

Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Obadiah 1:5WEB

“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?

Obadiah 1:6WEB

How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

Obadiah 1:7WEB

All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”

Obadiah 1:8WEB

“Won’t I in that day”, says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Obadiah 1:9WEB

Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

Obadiah 1:10WEB

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

Obadiah 1:11WEB

In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.

Obadiah 1:12WEB

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

Obadiah 1:13WEB

Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

Obadiah 1:14WEB

Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

Obadiah 1:15WEB

For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Obadiah 1:16WEB

For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

Obadiah 1:17WEB

But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

Obadiah 1:18WEB

The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Obadiah 1:19WEB

Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.

Obadiah 1:20WEB

The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.

Obadiah 1:21WEB

Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.

Obadiah 1

Obadiah 1:1WEB

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Obadiah 1:2WEB

Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

Obadiah 1:3WEB

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

Obadiah 1:4WEB

Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Obadiah 1:5WEB

Obadiah 1:6WEB

How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

Obadiah 1:7WEB

Obadiah 1:8WEB

“Won’t I in that day”, says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Obadiah 1:9WEB

Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

Obadiah 1:10WEB

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

Obadiah 1:11WEB

In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.

Obadiah 1:12WEB

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

Obadiah 1:13WEB

Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

Obadiah 1:14WEB

Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

Obadiah 1:15WEB

For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Obadiah 1:16WEB

For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

Obadiah 1:17WEB

But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

Obadiah 1:18WEB

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Obadiah 1:19WEB

Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.

Obadiah 1:20WEB

Obadiah 1:21WEB

Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.