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The Book of Obadiah

1The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Eternal has to say of Edom – the tidings we heard from the Eternal as the envoy went through the nations with his summons to rise and make war on her.


2“I will make you least among the nations,

deeply despised by men. 3Your pride of heart has played you false,

perched in your fastness of the rocks,

you who built your home so high,

thinking none could pull you down.

4Nest high as any eagle,

nest among the very stars–

but I will pull you down, says the Eternal.


What a downfall is yours!

5Had thieves come to you, robbers in the night,

would they have stolen more than they required?

Had gatherers of grapes come to you,

would they not have left some gleanings?

6But what a ransacking of Edom!

what a rifling of her treasures!

7You are driven to the very border;

all your allies have betrayed you,

your confederates have dislodged you,

laying plots to discomfit you,

plots you had no wit to see.


8Will not that be the day, says the Eternal,

when I wipe out all the astute from Edom,

and the shrewd men from Esau’s ranges?

9Teman, even your heroes will be terrified!

’Twill be a clean sweep of all Esau.


10’Tis for the outrage to your brother Jacob

you are disgraced, destroyed.

11For when you stood aloof,

as foreigners bore off his goods,

as aliens invaded him and cast lots for Jerusalem,

you were as one of them.

12Nor should you have gloated over your brother’s fate

on the day of his disaster,

never have exulted over the men of Judah

upon their day of ruin,

never have laughed aloud

on the day of distress;

13never should you have entered the gates of my people

on the day of their calamity,

never have gloated over their agony,

on the day of their calamity,

never have looted their goods

on the day of their calamity,

14never have stood at the passes to cut off their fugitives,

and never betrayed their survivors,

on the day of distress.

15As you did then, so it is done to you:

your deeds recoil on your own head.


Yes, the day of the Eternal is at hand, with doom for all the nations.

16you on my sacred hill have drunk the cup,

and so shall every nation drink it at my hand,

drink it and stagger and vanish.

17But your survivors shall hold Sion hill,

and it shall be inviolate;

the house of Jacob shall regain their heritage.

18For the house of Jacob shall be fire,

and Joseph’s house a flame,

with Esau’s house as straw

to be kindled and consumed,

till not a soul is left of Esau’s house–

by order of the Eternal.

19They shall hold the Negeb (Esau’s ranges), the lowlands of the Philistines, the hill country (both Ephraim’s district and Samaria’s), and Gilead of the Ammonites; 20exiles from Chalach and Chabor shall hold Phoenicia as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall hold the towns of the Nebev, 21marching to Sion hill for victory and vengeance upon Esau’s ranges. So shall the Eternal reign.”