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Edom Will Be Humbled

¹ The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning ^ORD" (Scofield Reference Bible). See the Scripture references following the first verse which outline the picture of what lies ahead for the nations of the world.">(F1)^(C1)Edom—

^(C2)We have heard a report from the LORD,
And an ^(C3)ambassador has been sent among the nations, saying,
"^(F2)(C4)Arise, and let us rise up against Edom for battle with the LORD as commander!" ^(VR1)

² "Behold Edom, I shall humiliate you and make you ^(C1)small among the nations;
You are greatly despised. ^(VR1)

³ "The ^(C1)pride and arrogance of your heart have deceived you,
You who live in the clefts and lofty security of the ^(C2)rock (Sela),
Whose dwelling place is high,
Who say boastfully in your heart,
'^(C3)Who will bring me down to earth?'

⁴ "Though you ^(C1)build your nest on high like the eagle,
Though you set your nest among the ^(C2)stars,
I will bring you down from there," says the LORD.

⁵ "If ^(C1)thieves came to you,
If robbers by night—
How you will be ruined!—
Would they not steal only until they had enough?
If grape gatherers came to you,
^(C2)Would they not leave some grapes for gleaning? ^(VR1)

⁶ "How Esau (Edom) ^(C1)shall be ransacked by men who come to ravage with divine approval!
How his hidden treasures shall be searched out!

⁷ "All the ^(C1)men allied with you
Shall send you on your way to the border;
The men who were at peace with you
Shall deceive you and overpower you;
Those who eat your ^(C2)bread those you trust
Shall set a hostile ambush for you.
(There is ^(C3)no understanding of it.)

⁸ "Will I not on that day," says the LORD,
"^(C1)Destroy the wise men from Edom removing all wisdom
And understanding from the ^(F1)mountain of Esau?

⁹ "And your ^(C1)mighty men shall be dismayed and demoralized, O ^(F1)(C2)Teman,
So that everyone from the mountain of Esau may be ^(C3)cut off in the slaughter.

Edom Denounced

¹⁰ "Because of the ^(C1)violence you did against your brother Jacob,
Shame shall cover you completely,
^(C2)And you shall be cut off forever.

¹¹ "On the day that Jerusalem was destroyed you ^(C1)stood aloof from your brother Jacob—
On the day that strangers took his forces captive and carried off his wealth,
And foreigners entered his gates
And ^(C2)cast lots for Jerusalem dividing the city for plunder—
^(C3)You too were like one of them collaborating with the enemy. ^(VR1)

¹² "^(C1)Do not gaze and gloat in triumph over your brother's day,
The day when his misfortune came.
^(C2)Do not rejoice over the sons of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
^(C3)Do not speak arrogantly jeering and maliciously mocking
In the day of their distress.

¹³ "Do not enter the gate of My people
In the ^(C1)day of their disaster;
Yes, you, do not look with delight on their misery
In the day of their ruin,
And do not ^(C2)loot treasures
In the day of their ruin.

¹⁴ "Do not ^(C1)stand at the crossroad
To cut down those of Judah who escaped;
And do not hand over to the enemy those of Judah who survive
In the day of their distress.

The Day of the LORD and the Future

¹⁵ "For the judgment ^(C1)day of the LORD draws near on all the nations.
^(C2)As you have done, it shall be done to you in retribution;
Your evil ^(C3)dealings will return on your own head. ^(VR1)

¹⁶ "Because just as you Edom ^(C1)drank on ^(C2)My holy mountain desecrating it in the revelry of the destroyers,
So shall all the nations ^(C3)drink continually one by one, of My wrath;
Yes, they shall drink and swallow the full measure of punishment
And become as though they had never existed. ^(VR1)

¹⁷ "But on Mount ^(C1)Zion in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance for those who escape,
And it shall be holy no pagan will defile it;
And the house of Jacob shall ^(C2)possess their former possessions. ^(VR1)

¹⁸ "Then the house of Jacob shall be a ^(C1)fire
And the house of Joseph a flame in executing God's wrath;
But the house of Esau will be like stubble.
They (Jacob) shall set them on fire and consume them (the Edomites),
So that there shall be ^(C2)no survivor of the house of Esau,"
For the LORD has spoken. ^(VR1)

¹⁹ Then those of the Negev shall ^(C1)possess the mountain of Esau,
And those of the Shephelah shall possess the ^(C2)Philistine plain;
Also, they shall ^(C3)possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria,
And Benjamin will possess Gilead across the Jordan River. ^(VR1)

²⁰ And the exiles of this host of the sons (descendants) of Israel
Who are among the Canaanites as far as ^(C1)Zarephath,
And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in ^(F1)Sepharad
Shall possess the ^(C2)cities of the Negev.

²¹ The ^(C1)deliverers shall go up on Mount Zion
To rule and judge the mountain of Esau,
And the ^(C2)kingdom and the kingship shall be the LORD'S. ^(VR1)