¹The vision of Obadiah. Thus said the Adonai Yahweh to Edom: a report we heard from Yahweh, and a pain has been sent among the nations: Rise, and let us rise against her for war.

²Behold, I have set you small among the nations; you are despised exceedingly.

³The presumption of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the cleft of the crag, the height of his spot, who says in his heart, Who will bring down me land?

⁴Though you taller as the eagle, and though between the stars you put your nest, from there I will bring down you, the utterance of Yahweh.

⁵If thieves came to you, if devastators of the night, how you are ruined! Would they not steal only their more? If fortified ones came to you, would they not leave gleanings?

⁶How Esau is ransacked, his hidden things ransacked!

⁷To the boundary they have sent you, all the men of your covenant; the men of your wholeness have deceived you, able to you; the men of your food trap under you — there is no understanding in him.

⁸Will I not in that day, the utterance of Yahweh, make the wise perish from Edom, and understanding from the mountain of Esau?

⁹And your mighty men, O Teman, will be dismayed, for the sake that every man be cut from the mountain of Esau by the slaughter.

¹⁰From the violence to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

¹¹In the day you stood from before, in the day foreigners took captive his wealth, and foreigner came into his gate and over Jerusalem cast a lot — you also were as one of them.

¹²But do not see in the day of your brother, on the day of his misfortune, and do not rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their perishing, and do not make your mouth great in the day of distress.

¹³Do not go in the gate of my people in the day of their disaster; do not see also you in his disaster in the day of his disaster; and do not send out against his wealth in the day of his disaster.

¹⁴And do not stand over the crossroads to cut off his refugees, and do not close up his survivors in the day of distress.

¹⁵For near is the day of Yahweh over all the nations; as you have made, it will be made to you; your deserving will return on your head.

¹⁶For as you drank over the mountain of my holiness, all the nations will drink continually; they will drink and swallow down, and they will be as though they were not.

¹⁷But in the mountain of Zion will be deliverance, and it will be holiness; and the house of Jacob will occupy their possessions.

¹⁸And the house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble; and they will pursue them hotly and eat them, and there will be no survivor to the house of Esau — for Yahweh has spoken.

¹⁹And the Negev will occupy the mountain of Esau, and the Shephelah the Philistines; and they will occupy the field of Ephraim and the field of Samaria, and Benjamin the Gilead.

²⁰And the exile of this wall, of the children of Israel, who are the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exile of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad, will occupy the cities of the Negev.

²¹And the saved will come up on the mountain of Zion to judge the mountain of Esau; and the kingdom will be to Yahweh.