LXX Obadiah

Judgment Against Idumea

1 Obadiah’s vision. This is what the Lord God says to Idumea. I heard a report from the Lord, and he sent a rampart to the nations.⁠a “Get up, and let us rise against her for war!” 2 Look, I have made you the smallest among the nations. You are utterly disgraced. 3 The pride in your heart has lifted you up, you who live in crevices in the rock, raising his home high, saying in his heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?” 4 If you soar like an eagle, and if you place your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the Lord.

5 If thieves had come to you, or robbers by night, where would you have been thrown aside? Would they not have stolen enough for themselves? And if grape gatherers had come to you, would they not have left some grapes behind? 6 How Esau was searched, and his hidden things were seized! 7 All the men bound to you by treaty sent you as far as your borders. They stood against you. The men at peace with you overpowered you.⁠b They laid an ambush beneath you. They have no understanding.

8 “On that day,” says the Lord, “I will destroy the wise from Idumea, and understanding from Mount Esau.” 9 And your warriors from Teman will be terrified, so that a person may be removed from Mount Esau.

Violence Against Jacob

10 Because of the slaughter and godlessness committed against your brother Jacob,⁠c shame will also cover you, and you will be removed forever. 11 Since the day you stood against him, on the day outsiders captured his army, and strangers entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, you too were like one of them.

12 And do not look at your brother’s day, on the day of strangers. And do not gloat over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, and do not boast on the day of their suffering. 13 Do not enter the peoples’ gates on the day of their troubles, or look, even you, at their gathering on the day of their destruction, or join an attack on their army on the day of their destruction. 14 Do not stand at their passageways to wipe out those among them who escape,⁠d or trap those fleeing from among them on the day of suffering.

The Day of the Lord

15 For the day of the Lord against all the nations is near. As you have done, the same will happen to you. Your repayment will be paid back on your head. 16 For as you drank on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink wine. They will drink and go down and be as though they did not exist.

Rescue on Mount Zion

17 But on Mount Zion there will be rescue, and it will be holy. And the house of Jacob will take possession of those who took possession of them. 18 And the house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau will be stubble, and they will be set on fire against them and consume them. There will not be a fire bearer left in the house of Esau, because the Lord has spoken.

19 And those in the Negev will inherit Mount Esau, and those in the Shephelah will inherit the Philistines. And they will inherit Mount Ephraim and the plain of Samaria and Benjamin and the land of Gilead. 20 And this is the beginning of the migration: for the children of Israel, the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the migration of Jerusalem as far as Ephrathah.⁠e And they will inherit the cities of the Negev.

21 And men rescued from Mount Zion will go up to punish Mount Esau, and the kingdom will belong to the Lord.