1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God to Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent an envoy to the nations: “Arise, and let us together rise up in battle against him.”
2 Behold, I have made you little among the nations. You are greatly contemptible.
3 The arrogance of your heart has lifted you up, living in the clefts of the rocks, exalting your throne. You say in your heart, “Who will pull me down to the ground?”
4 Though you have been lifted high like an eagle, and though you have placed your nest among the stars, from there I will pull you down, says the Lord.
5 If thieves had approached you, if robbers by night, how would you have remained unnoticed? Would they not have stolen all that they wanted? If the grape-pickers had approached you, would they not have left you at least a cluster?
6 In what way have they been examining Esau? They investigated his secrets.
7 They have sent you out all the way to the limit. All the men of your alliance have deceived you. Your men of peace have prevailed against you. Those who eat with you will place snares under you. There is no foresight in him.
8 Shall I not, in that day, says the Lord, wipe away understanding from Idumea and foresight from the mount of Esau?
9 And your strong from the Meridian will be afraid, so that man may perish from the mount of Esau.
10 Because of the execution, and because of the iniquity against your brother Jacob, confusion will cover you, and you will pass away into eternity.
11 In the day when you stood against him, when strangers seized his army, and foreigners entered into his gates, and they cast lots over Jerusalem: you also were just like one of them.
12 But you shall not show disdain for the day of your brother in the day of his sojourn. And you shall not rejoice over the sons of Judah in the day of their perdition. And you shall not magnify your mouth in the day of anguish.
13 And neither shall you enter into the gate of my people in the day of their ruin. And neither shall you also show disdain for his troubles in the day of his desolation. And you shall not send out against his army in the day of his desolation.
14 Neither shall you stand at the exits to execute those who will flee. And you shall not enclose their remnant in the day of tribulation.
15 For the day of the Lord is near, over all nations. Just as you have done, so will it be done to you. He will turn back your retribution on your own head.
16 For in the manner that you drank on my holy mountain, so shall all nations drink continually. And they will drink, and they will absorb, and they will be as if they were not.
17 And on mount Zion there will be salvation, and it will be holy. And the house of Jacob will possess those who had possessed them.
18 And the house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble. And they will be set on fire among them, and they will devour them. And there will be no remnant of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.
19 And those who are towards the South, and who are in the camps of the Philistines, will inherit the mount of Esau. And they will possess the region of Ephraim, and the region of Samaria. And Benjamin will possess Gilead.
20 And the exiles of this army of the sons of Israel, all the places of the Canaanites all the way to Sarepta, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Bosphoro, will possess the cities of the South.
21 And the saviors will ascend to mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau. And the kingdom will be for the Lord.
Versículos relacionados com Obadiah, 1:
The book of Abdias is composed of only one chapter and is a message of judgment against Edom because of its hostility and violence against the people of Israel. Here are five verses related to the topics addressed in Abdias 1:
Exodus 17:16: "For he said, For the Lord, the Lord has sworn that there will be war of the Lord against Amaleque from generation to generation." The war between the descendants of Jacob and Esau (from which Edom came dating back to biblical times. The Exodus verse shows that this war was initiated by the Lord Himself and that it would be fought from generation to generation.
Jeremiah 49:14: "A message from the Lord against Edom is heard, and news is heard in Seir." Jeremiah prophesies against Edom, announcing that he would be destroyed as one of the neighboring nations of Israel who had opposed God and his people.
Ezekiel 35:5: "For eternal enmity you have, and you have given the children of Israel to the wire of the sword in the time of calamity, in the time of final iniquity." Ezekiel also prophesies against Edom, saying that she was a ruthless enemy of Israel and would be punished for it.
Psalm 137:7: "Remember, Lord, of the children of Edom on the day of Jerusalem, who said, I discovered it, I discovered it to its foundations." This psalm recalls the suffering of the Jewish people in Babylonian exile and claims that the Edomites rejoiced with the fall of Jerusalem and encouraged their destruction.
Obadiah 1:21: "And he will be saviors to Mount Zion to judge the hill of Esau, and the kingdom will be of the Lord." The last verse of Obadiah's book prophesies Israel's final victory over Edom and the ascension of the Lord as king upon all the earth.
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