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    Obadiah · 21 verses

    Obadiah 1

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    The people who eat Edom’s bread are the ones who set its trap, which is a particularly intimate sort of catastrophe.

    A trap laid by familiar handsvv. 1–9

    Obadiah receives a vision concerning Edom: an envoy goes among the nations with an invitation to battle, while Edom sits high in the clefts of the rocks and mistakes height for safety. The coming ruin is described with an almost fussy comparison: thieves would take only what they wanted, and grape gatherers would leave gleanings. Edom gets no such courtesy. Its allies drive it to the border, its friends deceive it, and the people who eat its bread lay a trap without announcing supper’s true purpose. Even the wise men and mighty men of Esau Mount are swept into the coming terror.

    The day Judah was left exposedvv. 10–16

    The charge against Edom is not merely that it was conquered, but that it watched Jacob’s disaster from a comfortable distance and then behaved as though the gates and crossroads had become its own opportunities. Strangers carried off wealth, foreigners entered Jerusalem, and Edom stood by; afterwards came gloating, looting, cutting off fugitives, and handing over survivors. The day of the LORD is announced for all the nations, with a wonderfully plain accounting: what Edom did returns to Edom’s own head. Even drinking on the holy mountain becomes an image of universal swallowing.

    Possession changes handsvv. 17–21

    The scene turns from Edom’s cutting down to deliverance on Mount Zion. The house of Jacob reclaims its possession, while the house of Esau is reduced to stubble before Jacob’s fire. Then the map itself begins to change hands: the Negev reaches toward the mountains of Esau, the foothills toward Philistia, Benjamin toward Gilead, and the exiles toward Canaan as far as Zarephath. Jerusalem’s exiles in Sepharad are given the cities of the Negev. At the end, deliverers ascend Mount Zion, and the kingdom belongs to the LORD.

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    1. Obad 1:1This 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. Obad 1:2“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.

    3. Obad 1:3The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

    4. Obad 1:4Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

    5. Obad 1:5“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. Obad 1:6But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!

    7. Obad 1:7All 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 will set a trap for you without your awareness of it.

    8. Obad 1:8In 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. Obad 1:9Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.

    10. Obad 1:10Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

    11. Obad 1:11On 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. Obad 1:12But 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 in the day of their distress.

    13. Obad 1:13You 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. Obad 1:14Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress.

    15. Obad 1:15For 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. Obad 1:16For 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. Obad 1:17But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will reclaim their possession.

    18. Obad 1:18Then 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. Obad 1:19Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau; those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.

    20. Obad 1:20And 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. Obad 1:21The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.

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    • 17Amos 9:11–15“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,
    • 17Revelation 21:27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
    • 15James 2:13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
    • 17Isaiah 14:1–2For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
    • 3Isaiah 14:13–15You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.
    • 15Habakkuk 2:8Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you—because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
    • 17Joel 3:19–21Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
    • 17Amos 9:8Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.
    • 15Matthew 7:2For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
    • 17Joel 2:32And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.’’
    • 21Zechariah 14:9On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone.
    • 1Amos 1:11–12This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.
    • 3Proverbs 29:23A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
    • 4Amos 9:2Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.
    • 4Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
    • 12Proverbs 17:5He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.

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