1 The Vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom: We have heard news from Yahweh, and a messenger has been sent out to the nations to say, "Rise, let us go against Esau."
2 The day has come: you now are small among the nations; you are utterly despised.
3 Your arrogance has led you astray, you who live in the clefts of the rock, you who make the heights your home, you who say to yourself: Who can bring me down to the ground?
4 Though you soar like the eagle, though you make your nests among the stars, I will bring you down again.
5 If thieves or plunderers come at night, what a disaster awaits you then! Would they not ransack till they had enough? If grape gatherers worked in your vineyard, would they not leave only gleanings?
6 See how Esau has been looted, even his hidden treasures pillaged!
7 You have been driven to the frontiers: and those were your very friends! Those who partook of your bread set for you a trap in secret.
8 Yahweh declares: Shall I not destroy the wise men of Edom on that day, and deprive of sages the mountain of Esau?
9 Your warriors, O Teman, will be afraid, and all from Mount Esau will be slaughtered.
10 For the violence done to Jacob, your brother, you will be disgraced and destroyed forever.
11 You stood aloof in waiting when strangers carried off his wealth, when foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were as guilty as the rest of them.
12 Do not come to see and gloat over the misfortune of your brother. Do not exult over Judah's ruin, nor brag on the day of her destruction.
13 Do not go through the gate of my people on the day of their disgrace, nor gloat over them in their misfortune on the day of their adversity, nor lay your hands upon their possessions on the day of their destruction.
14 Do not wait at the crossroad to slay their stragglers, nor betray their survivors on the day of their disaster.
15 For the day of Yahweh is near for every nation. As you have done to another, so to you will it be done. Whatever you have done will come back upon your head.
16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will the surrounding nation drink, drink and drink up to the brim... Then they shall be as if they had never been.
17 But there will be survivors on Mount Zion - a holy remnant. The house of Jacob will take possession of its own inheritance.
18 The nation of Jacob will be a fire, the nation of Joseph a flame; but those of Esau will be a stubble, and they will burn and consume them. And of Esau's house none will remain, for it is Yahweh who has spoken.
19 People from the Negeb will occupy Esau's mountains; those from the plains, the land of the Philistines; they will occupy Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
20 The Israelite exiles who are in Canaan will possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephtah; the exiles from Jerusalem now in Sepharad will possess the towns of the Negeb.
21 Deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau, - then Yahweh will reign.
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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