LXX Obadiah

1The Vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord God says to Edom: I heard a report from the Lord, and he sent forth an enclosing for the nations. “Stand up, and let us rise up against it for battle! 2 Behold, I gave you as the smallest among the nations. You are exceedingly dishonored. 3 The arrogance of your heart exalted you, while you were living among clefts of stones, his dwelling place of heights, saying in his heart, ‘Who shall bring me down upon the earth? 4 If you soar like an eagle, and if you set your nest between the stars, from there I shall bring you down,” says the Lord. 5 “If thieves come to you, or robbers by night, how might you be cast out? Would they not steal enough things for themselves? If fruit pickers came to you, would they not leave the small grapes? 6 How Esau has been sought out, and his hidden things detected. 7 All the men of your covenant have expelled you as far as the boundaries. They stood against you. Your men of peace have prevailed against you. They have set an ambush below you. They have no understanding. 8 On that day,” says the Lord, “I will destroy the wise ones from Edom, and understanding from the mountains of Esau. 9 Your warriors from Teman shall be terrified, as a consequence of which humankind shall be removed from the mountain of Esau. 10 On account of the slaughter and impiety of your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you shall be removed for the age. 11 From the day you stood opposite, on the day foreigners captured his army and strangers entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you too were like one of them. 12 And do not want the day of your brother on the day of strangers, and do not rejoice over the sons of Judah on the day of their destruction, and do not boast on the day of oppression. 13 Neither should you have entered into the gates of the people on the day of their distresses, nor should you have needed, even you, the gathering of them on the day of their ruin, nor should you have joined in attacking their army on the day of their destruction. 14 Nor should you have stood on his city gates to destroy his rescuers, nor should you have enclosed the ones escaping him on the day of oppression.” 15 “Because the day of the Lord is near against all the nations. According to which manner you have done, thus it shall be for you; your recompense shall be repaid on your head. 16 Because, the way you drank on my holy mountain, they shall drink and go down, and be just as though they are not present. 17 On Mount Zion there shall be salvation, and there shall be holiness, and the house of Jacob shall inherit the ones who had disinherited them. 18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for a stalk, and they shall be burnt for them, and they shall devour them, and there shall be no wheat-bearing for the house of Esau,” because the Lord has spoken. 19 “And those in Negeb shall inherit the mountain of Esau, and those in Shephelah the foreigners, and they shall inherit the mountain of Ephraim and the plain of Samaria and of Benjamin and of Gilead. 20 And this is the beginning of the captivity. The land of the Canaanites will belong to the sons of Israel as far as Zarephath, and the captivity of Jerusalem as far as Ophrah; they shall inherit the cities of the Negeb. 21 Those being rescued shall go up out of the mountain of Zion to avenge the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom shall be for the Lord.”