1The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord God says about Edom. We have heard news from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let's rise up against her in battle.

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Amos 1:11, Amos 1:12, Amos 1:11, Amos 1:12, Joel 3:19

2Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

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Numbers 24:18, Isaiah 23:9, Numbers 24:18, Isaiah 23:9, Micah 7:10

3The 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?'

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Isaiah 14:13, Isaiah 14:15, Isaiah 14:13, Isaiah 14:15, Proverbs 29:23

4Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says the Lord.

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Habakkuk 2:9, Job 20:6, Job 20:7, Amos 9:2, Habakkuk 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?

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Jeremiah 49:9, Deuteronomy 24:21, Jeremiah 49:9, Deuteronomy 24:21, Isaiah 17:6

6How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

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Jeremiah 49:10, Jeremiah 49:10, Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:1, Daniel 2:22

7All 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."

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Psalms 41:9, Psalms 41:9, Jeremiah 30:14, Jeremiah 49:7, Jeremiah 30:14

8"Won't I in that day," says the Lord, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?

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Isaiah 29:14, Isaiah 29:14, Job 5:12, Job 5:14, Job 5:12

9Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

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Ezekiel 25:13, Amos 1:12, Isaiah 63:1, Isaiah 63:3, Ezekiel 25:13

10For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

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Amos 1:11, Amos 1:11, Malachi 1:3, Malachi 1:4, Malachi 1:3

11In 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.

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Psalms 137:7, Psalms 137:7, Nahum 3:10, Nahum 3:10, Joel 3:3

12But do not look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and do not rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Do not speak proudly in the day of distress.

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Micah 4:11, Ezekiel 35:15, Micah 4:11, Ezekiel 35:15, Proverbs 17:5

13Do not enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Do not look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

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Zechariah 1:15, Zechariah 1:15, Psalms 22:17, Ezekiel 35:10, 2 Samuel 16:12

14Do not stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Do not deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

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Psalms 31:8, Isaiah 37:3, Genesis 35:3, Obadiah 1:12, Amos 1:9

15For the day of the Lord is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

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Habakkuk 2:8, Habakkuk 2:8, James 2:13, James 2:13, Matthew 7:2

16For 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.

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Joel 3:17, Jeremiah 49:12, Joel 3:17, Jeremiah 49:12, Jeremiah 25:15

17But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

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Revelation 21:27, Amos 9:11, Amos 9:15, Revelation 21:27, Amos 9:11

18The 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, the Lord has spoken.

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Zechariah 12:6, Zechariah 12:6, Isaiah 10:17, Isaiah 10:17, Ezekiel 37:19

19Those of the Negev 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.

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Zephaniah 2:4, Zephaniah 2:7, Jeremiah 32:44, Amos 9:12, Zephaniah 2:4

20The captives of this army 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.

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Luke 4:26, 1 Kings 17:9, 1 Kings 17:10, Luke 4:26, 1 Kings 17:9

21Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be the Lord's.

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Revelation 11:15, Revelation 11:15, Zechariah 14:9, James 5:20, Zechariah 14:9