| 1 | The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let`s rise up against her in battle. | Ps 137:7 Isa 21:11 Isa 34:1-17 Isa 63:1-6 Jer 9:25 Jer 9:26 Jer 25:17 Jer 25:21 Jer 49:17-22 Lam 4:21 Lam 4:22 Ezk 25:12-14 Ezk 35:3-15 Jl 3:19 Am 1:11 Am 1:12 Mal 1:3 Mal 1:4 |
| 2 | Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised. | Nm 24:18 1Sa 2:7 1Sa 2:8 Jb 34:25-29 Ps 107:39 Ps 107:40 Isa 23:9 Ezk 29:15 Mic 7:10 Lk 1:51 Lk 1:52 |
| 3 | The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, `Who will bring me down to the ground?` | Pr 16:18 Pr 18:12 Pr 29:23 Isa 10:14-16 Isa 16:6 Jer 48:29 Jer 48:30 Jer 49:16 Mal 1:4 |
| 4 | Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh. | Jb 20:6 Jb 20:7 Jb 39:27 Jb 39:28 Jer 49:16 Hab 2:9 |
| 5 | If thieves came to you, if robbers by night -- oh, what disaster awaits you -- wouldn`t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn`t they leave some gleaning grapes? | Jer 49:9 |
| 6 | How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out! | Ps 139:1 Isa 10:13 Isa 10:14 Isa 45:3 Jer 49:10 Jer 50:37 Mt 6:19 Mt 6:20 |
| 7 | All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him. | Ps 55:12 Ps 55:13 Jer 4:30 Jer 30:14 Lam 1:19 Ezk 23:22-25 Rev 17:12-17 |
| 8 | "Won`t I in that day," says Yahweh, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau? | Jb 5:12-14 Ps 33:10 Isa 19:3 Isa 19:13 Isa 19:14 Isa 29:14 1Co 3:19 1Co 3:20 |
| 9 | Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter. | Ps 76:5 Ps 76:6 Isa 19:16 Isa 19:17 Jer 49:22 Jer 50:36 Jer 50:37 Am 2:16 Nah 3:13 |
| 10 | For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. | Gn 27:11 Gn 27:41 Nm 20:14-21 Ps 83:5-9 Ps 137:7 Lam 4:21 Ezk 25:12 Ezk 35:5 Ezk 35:6 Ezk 35:12-15 Am 1:11 |
| 11 | In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them. | 2Ki 24:10-16 2Ki 25:11 Jer 52:28-30 |
| 12 | But don`t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don`t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don`t speak proudly in the day of distress. | Ps 22:17 Ps 37:13 Ps 54:7 Ps 59:10 Ps 92:11 Mic 4:11 Mic 7:8-10 Mt 27:40-43 |
| 13 | Don`t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don`t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity. | 2Sa 16:12 Ps 22:17 Zc 1:15 |
| 14 | Don`t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don`t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress. | Am 1:6 Am 1:9 |
| 15 | For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head. | Ps 110:5 Ps 110:6 Jer 9:25 Jer 9:26 Jer 25:15-29 Jer 49:12 Lam 4:21 Lam 4:22 Ezk 30:3 Jl 3:11-14 Mic 5:15 Zc 14:14-18 |
| 16 | For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been. | Ps 75:8 Ps 75:9 Isa 49:25 Isa 49:26 Isa 51:22 Isa 51:23 Jer 25:15 Jer 25:16 Jer 25:27-29 Jer 49:12 Jl 3:17 1Pe 4:17 |
| 17 | But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions. | Isa 46:13 Jl 2:32 |
| 18 | The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau." Indeed, Yahweh has spoken. | Isa 10:17 Isa 31:9 Mic 5:8 Zc 12:6 |
| 19 | Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead. | Nm 24:18 Nm 24:19 Jsh 15:21 Jer 32:44 Am 9:12 Mal 1:4 Mal 1:5 |
| 20 | The captives of this host of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev. | Jer 3:18 Jer 33:26 Ezk 34:12 Ezk 34:13 Hos 1:10 Hos 1:11 Am 9:14 Am 9:15 Zc 10:6-10 |
| 21 | Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh`s. | Jg 2:16 Jg 3:9 2Ki 13:5 Isa 19:20 Dn 12:3 Jl 2:32 Mic 5:4-9 Zc 9:11-17 Zc 10:5-12 1Ti 4:16 Jm 5:20 |
