Obadiah 1

1The 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.Cross-references: Ps 137:7 · Isa 18:2 · Isa 21:11 · Isa 30:4 · Isa 34:1 · Isa 63:1 · +17 more

2Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.Cross-references: Num 24:18 · 1Sam 2:7 · Job 34:25 · Ps 107:39 · Isa 23:9 · Ezek 29:15 · +2 more

3The 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?’Cross-references: 2Ki 14:7 · 2Chr 25:12 · Prov 16:18 · Prov 18:12 · Prov 29:23 · Isa 10:14 · +8 more

4Though 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.Cross-references: Job 20:6 · Job 39:27 · Isa 14:12 · Jer 49:16 · Jer 51:53 · Amos 9:2 · +1 more

5“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?Cross-references: Deut 24:21 · 2Sam 1:19 · Isa 14:12 · Isa 17:6 · Isa 24:13 · Jer 49:9 · +5 more

6How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!Cross-references: Ps 139:1 · Isa 10:13 · Isa 45:3 · Jer 49:10 · Jer 50:37 · Dan 2:22 · +1 more

7All 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.”Cross-references: Ps 41:9 · Ps 55:12 · Isa 19:11 · Isa 27:11 · Jer 4:30 · Jer 20:10 · +8 more

8“Won’t I in that day”, says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?Cross-references: Job 5:12 · Ps 33:10 · Isa 19:3 · Isa 19:13 · Isa 29:14 · 1Cor 3:19

9Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.Cross-references: Gen 36:11 · Deut 2:5 · 1Chr 1:45 · Job 2:11 · Ps 76:5 · Isa 19:16 · +11 more

10For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.Cross-references: Gen 27:11 · Gen 27:41 · Num 20:14 · Ps 69:7 · Ps 83:5 · Ps 89:45 · +17 more

11In 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:10 · 2Ki 25:11 · Ps 50:18 · Ps 137:7 · Jer 52:28 · Joel 3:3 · +1 more

12But 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:3 · Job 31:29 · Ps 22:17 · Ps 31:18 · Ps 37:13 · Ps 54:7 · +16 more

13Don’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.Cross-references: 2Sam 16:12 · Ps 22:17 · Ezek 35:5 · Ezek 35:10 · Zech 1:15

14Don’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.Cross-references: Gen 35:3 · Ps 31:8 · Isa 37:3 · Jer 30:7 · Amos 1:6 · Amos 1:9 · +1 more

15For 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.Cross-references: Judg 1:7 · Ps 110:5 · Ps 137:8 · Jer 9:25 · Jer 25:15 · Jer 49:12 · +12 more

16For 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.Cross-references: Ps 75:8 · Isa 8:9 · Isa 29:7 · Isa 42:14 · Isa 49:25 · Isa 51:22 · +6 more

17But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.Cross-references: Isa 1:27 · Isa 4:3 · Isa 14:1 · Isa 46:13 · Isa 60:21 · Jer 44:14 · +11 more

18The 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 19:20 · Ps 83:6 · Isa 5:24 · Isa 10:17 · Isa 31:9 · Isa 47:14 · +11 more

19Those 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.Cross-references: Num 24:18 · Josh 13:2 · Josh 13:25 · Josh 13:31 · Josh 15:21 · Josh 15:33 · +26 more

20The 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:9 · Jer 3:18 · Jer 13:19 · Jer 32:44 · Jer 33:13 · Jer 33:26 · +5 more

21Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.Cross-references: Judg 2:16 · Judg 3:9 · 2Ki 13:5 · Ps 2:6 · Ps 22:28 · Ps 102:15 · +24 more