Proud Edom Will Be Brought Low; Edom’s pride and downfall

1 This is the vision of Obadiah given by the master Yahweh concerning ≈the Edom region:

We have heard from Yahweh and a messenger has been sent to the nations, telling them:

≈Get everything ready then go into battle against @Edom.

2 And Yahweh says to Edom:

Listen,

I will make you into an insignificant nation.

≈You’ll become utterly despised.

3 Your ≈inner pride has deceived you,

you who live on the rocky cliffs,

≈with your homes up there so high.

You say ≈to yourselves that

no one can bring you down to the ground.

4 If you go up high like an eagle,

≈even if your nest was up between the stars,

Yahweh declares that his ≈command can bring you down from there.

Pillage and Slaughter Will Repay Edom’s Cruelty

5 If it was thieves who came to destroy you in the night,

(and yes, you’re going to be destroyed)

they would only steal what they wanted.

Or if it was grape-pickers who came to you,

at least they’d leave behind ≈the smaller grapes.

6 How Esau’s descendants will be looted.

≈#Their hidden treasures will be ≈found and taken.

7 ≈Those who have treaties with you will force you to the border.

≈≈Those who talk about peace will deceive you.

≈≈Those who eat meals with you will set a trap for you.

≈You have no idea what’s about to hit you.

8 Yahweh will make a declaration on that day.

The wise people of Edom will be destroyed.

≈Understanding will disappear from Esau’s hill.

9 And you the city of Teyman, your warriors will be shattered,

≈so that everyone from Esau’s hill country ≈will be slaughtered.

10 Because of your violence against your brother Yacob’s descendants,

shame will ≈overcome you,

and you’ll be ≈destroyed forever.

11 You just ≈stood and watched on that day when strangers ≈carried away their wealth.

≈When foreigners entered their gates and ≈took possession of Yerushalem, you ≈wished it was you doing that.

12 You ≈shouldn’t have gloated over your ≈cousins on the day of #their misfortune.

≈And you ≈shouldn’t have celebrated about the destruction of the people of Yehudah.

You shouldn’t have ≈bragged in their time of distress.

13 You ≈shouldn’t have gone into their city at the ≈time of their calamity.

You ≈shouldn’t have gloated—yes, you—over their misery in their ≈time of disaster.

And you women ≈shouldn’t have grabbed their wealth on the day of their catastrophe.

14 You ≈shouldn’t have stood at the crossroads to ≈kill those trying to escape,[ref]

And you ≈shouldn’t have handed-over any survivors that you’d captured in their ≈time of trouble.

15 For all the nations, Yahweh’s day is near,

Just as you’ve done, ≈the same will be done to you.

≈Your actions will return onto your own head.

16 Because just like how all you Israelis[fn] drank suffering on my holy mountain,

all the nations will drink continually.

They will drink and swallow it down.

They’ll become as if they’d never even existed.

17 ≈But on Mt. Tsiyyon (‘Zion’), there’ll be deliverance,

and it will be holy,

≈≈Yisrael’s people will ≈reclaim their possessions.

18 ≈Yisrael’s people will be a fire,

≈and Yosef’s ≈descendants will be a flame.

None of Esau’s ≈descendants will survive,

because Yahweh has spoken.

19 The people from the Negev will ≈take ownership of Esau’s mountain,

≈and the people from the Shefelah ≡will take ownership of the Philistines’ land.

They will recapture the Efrayim and Samarian countrysides,

≈and the people of Benyamin ≡will recapture Gilead.

20 Yisrael’s exiles ≡will take ownership of the Canaanites’ land as far as Tsarefat,

≈and the exiles from Yerushalem (who are in Sefarad) ≡will take ownership of the cities of the Negev.

21 The rescuers will go up Mt. Tsiyyon/Zion to judge Esau’s mountain.

and Yahweh ≈will be their king.