Predictions of Judgment on Edom

1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumor from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise, and let us rise up against her in battle.

2 Behold, I have made you small among the heathen: you are greatly despised.

3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; who says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

4 Though you exalt yourself like the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, from there will I bring you down, says the LORD.

5 If thieves came to you, if robbers by night, (how you are cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes?

6 How the things of Esau are searched out! How his hidden things are desired!

7 All the men of your confederacy have brought you even to the border: the men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have prepared to wound you from beneath: there is no understanding in him.

8 Shall I not in that day, says the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

9 And your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, so that every inhabitant of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

Causes of the Judgment on Edom

10 For your violence against your brother Jacob shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.

11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that the strangers took away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even you were as one of them.

12 But you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

13 You should not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, you should not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their possessions in the day of their calamity;

14 Neither should you have stood at the crossroad, to cut off those of his people who escaped; neither should you have delivered up those of his people who remained in the day of distress.

Results of the Judgment on Edom

15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as you have done, it shall be done to you: your reward shall return upon your own head.

16 For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess what belongs to them.

18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken it.

Possession of Edom by Israel

19 And those of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and those of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites, even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.

21 And saviors shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.