Bible (Berean Standard)/Obadiah
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The Destruction of Edom
(Jeremiah 49:7–22)
1 This is the vision of Obadiah:
- This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom—
- We have heard a message from the LORD;
- an envoy has been sent among the nations
- to say, “Rise up,
- and let us go to battle against her!”—
- 2 “Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
- you will be deeply despised.
- 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you,
- O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks [1]
- whose habitation is the heights,
- who say in your heart,
- ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
- 4 Though you soar like the eagle
- and make your nest among the stars,
- even from there I will bring you down,”
declares the LORD.
- 5 “If thieves came to you,
- if robbers by night—
- oh, how you will be ruined—
- would they not steal only what they wanted?
- If grape gatherers came to you,
- would they not leave some gleanings?
- 6 But how Esau will be pillaged,
- his hidden treasures sought out!
- 7 All the men allied with you
- will drive you to the border;
- the men at peace with you
- will deceive and overpower you.
- Those who eat your bread [2]
- will set a trap for you
- without your awareness of it.
- 8 In that day, declares the LORD,
- will I not destroy the wise men of Edom
- and the men of understanding
- in the mountains of Esau?
- 9 Then your mighty men, O Teman,
- will be terrified,
- so that everyone in the mountains of Esau
- will be cut down in the slaughter.
- 10 Because of the violence against your brother Jacob,
- you will be covered with shame
- and cut off forever.
- 11 On the day you stood aloof
- while strangers carried off his wealth
- and foreigners entered his gate
- and cast lots for Jerusalem,
- you were just like one of them.
- 12 But you should not gloat in that day,
- your brother’s day of misfortune,
- nor rejoice over the people of Judah
- in the day of their destruction,
- nor boast proudly [3]
- in the day of their distress.
- 13 You should not enter the gate of My people
- in the day of their disaster,
- nor gloat over their affliction
- in the day of their disaster,
- nor loot their wealth
- in the day of their disaster.
- 14 Nor should you stand at the crossroads
- to cut off their fugitives,
- nor deliver up their survivors
- in the day of their distress.
The Deliverance of Israel
- 15 For the Day of the LORD is near
- for all the nations.
- As you have done, it will be done to you;
- your recompense will return upon your own head.
- 16 For as you drank on My holy mountain,
- so all the nations will drink continually.
- They will drink and gulp it down;
- they will be as if they had never existed.
- 17 But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance,
- and it will be holy,
- and the house of Jacob
- will reclaim their possession.
- 18 Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,
- and the house of Joseph a burning flame;
- but the house of Esau will be stubble—
- Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it.
- Therefore no survivor will remain
- from the house of Esau.”
For the LORD has spoken.
- 19 Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau;
- those from the foothills [4] will possess the land of the Philistines.
- They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,
- and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
- 20 And the exiles of this host of the Israelites
- will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath;
- and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
- will possess the cities of the Negev.
- 21 The deliverers will ascend [5] Mount Zion
- to rule over the mountains of Esau.
- And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.
Footnotes
[edit]- ↑ 1:3 Or in the retreats of Sela
- ↑ 1:7 Hebrew does not include Those who eat.
- ↑ 1:12 Hebrew nor enlarge your mouth
- ↑ 1:19 Hebrew Shephelah or lowlands; that is, the western foothills of Judea
- ↑ 1:21 Or The deliverers will go up from; LXX Those being delivered will go up
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