Obadiah 1:1-14

The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord GOD has said about Edom:  We have heard a message from the  LORD;  an envoy has been sent  among the nations: “Rise up,  and let’s go to war against her.”  Look, I will make you insignificant  among the nations; you will be deeply despised. Your arrogant heart has deceived you,  you who live in clefts of the rock  , , in your home on the heights, who say to yourself, “Who can bring me down to the ground? ”  Though you seem to soar  like an eagle  and make your nest among the stars,  even from there I will bring you down. This is the  LORD’s declaration. If thieves came to you,  if marauders by night — how ravaged you would be! — wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted? If grape harvesters came to you, wouldn’t they leave a few grapes?  How Esau will be pillaged,  his hidden treasures searched out!  Everyone who has a treaty with you  will drive you to the border; everyone at peace with you will deceive and conquer you. Those who eat your bread  will set  a trap for you. He will be unaware of it.  In that day — this is the  LORD’s declaration — will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom  and those who understand from the hill country of Esau? Teman,  , your warriors  will be terrified so that everyone from the hill country of Esau will be destroyed by slaughter.  You will be covered with shame and destroyed forever because of violence done to your brother Jacob.  On the day you stood aloof,  on the day strangers captured his wealth,  while foreigners entered his city gate and cast lots for Jerusalem,  you were just like one of them.  Do not  gloat over your brother  in the day of his calamity; do not rejoice over the people of Judah  in the day of their destruction; do not boastfully mock  , in the day of distress.  Do not enter my people’s city gate in the day of their disaster.  Yes, you — do not gloat over their misery in the day of their disaster, and do not appropriate their possessions  in the day of their disaster. Do not stand at the crossroads  , to cut off their fugitives, and do not hand over their survivors in the day of distress.