1 The vision of Obadiah. (Thus says the Lord GOD:) Of Edom we have heard a message from the LORD, and a herald has been sent among the nations: "Up! let us go to war against him!"
2 See, I make you small among the nations; you are held in dire contempt.
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you: you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose abode is in the heights, Who say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to earth?"
4 Though you go as high as the eagle, and your nest be set among the stars, From there will I bring you down, says the LORD.
5 If thieves came to you, if robbers by night, how could you be thus destroyed: would they not steal merely till they had enough? If vintagers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
6 How they search Esau, seek out his hiding places!
7 To the border they drive you -- all your allies; They deceive you, they overpower you-- those at peace with you; Those who eat your bread lay snares beneath you: There is no understanding in him!
8 Shall I not, says the LORD, on that day make the wise men disappear from Edom, and understanding from the mount of Esau?
9 Your warriors, O Teman, shall be crushed, till all on Mount Esau are destroyed.
10 Because of violence to your brother Jacob, disgrace shall cover you and you shall be destroyed forever.
11 On the day when you stood by, on the day when aliens carried off his possessions, And strangers entered his gates and cast lots over Jerusalem, you too were one of them.
12 Gaze not upon the day of your brother, the day of his disaster; Exult not over the children of Judah on the day of their ruin; Speak not haughtily on the day of distress!
13 Enter not the gate of my people on the day of their calamity; Gaze not, you at least, upon his misfortune on the day of his calamity; Lay not hands upon his possessions on the day of his calamity!
14 Stand not at the crossroads to slay his refugees; Betray not his fugitives on the day of distress!
15 For near is the day of the LORD for all the nations! As you have done, so shall it be done to you, your deed shall come back upon your own head;
16 As you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually. Yes, they shall drink and swallow, and shall become as though they had not been.
17 But on Mount Zion there shall be a portion saved; the mountain shall be holy, And the house of Jacob shall take possession of those that dispossessed them.
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame; The house of Esau shall be stubble, and they shall set them ablaze and devour them; Then none shall survive of the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.
19 They shall occupy the Negeb, the mount of Esau, and the foothills of the Philistines; And they shall occupy the lands of Ephraim and the lands of Samaria, and Benjamin shall occupy Gilead.
20 The captives of the host of the children of Israel shall occupy the Canaanite land as far as Zarephath, And the captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall occupy the cities of the Negeb.
21 And saviors shall ascend Mount Zion to rule the mount of Esau, and the kingship shall be the LORD'S.
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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