Berean Standard Bible

Obadiah 1:1-9

1This is the vision of Obadiah:

This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom—

We have heard a message from the LORD;an envoy has been sent among the nationsto say, “Rise up,and let us go to battle against her!”—

2“Behold, I will make you small among the nations;you will be deeply despised.3The pride of your heart has deceived you,O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks1whose habitation is the heights,who say in your heart,‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’4Though you soar like the eagleand make your nest among the stars,even from there I will bring you down,”declares the LORD.5“If thieves came to you,if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted?If grape gatherers came to you,would they not leave some gleanings?6But how Esau will be pillaged,his hidden treasures sought out!7All the men allied with youwill drive you to the border;the men at peace with youwill deceive and overpower you.Those who eat your bread2will set a trap for youwithout your awareness of it.8In that day, declares the LORD,will I not destroy the wise men of Edomand the men of understandingin the mountains of Esau?9Then your mighty men, O Teman,will be terrified,so that everyone in the mountains of Esauwill be cut down in the slaughter.

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Notes

1. Obadiah 1:3 Or in the retreats of Sela ↩
2. Obadiah 1:7 Hebrew does not include Those who eat. ↩

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