The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God to Idumea: I have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent out a siege against the nations: Rise up, and let us rise up against her for war.
The pride of your heart has lifted you up, you who dwell in the clefts of the rocks, setting his dwelling on high, saying in his heart: Who will bring me down to the ground?
If thieves came in to you, or robbers by night, where would you be flung? Would they not steal only enough for themselves? And if grape-pickers came in to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
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πῶςἐξηρευνήθηΗσαυκαὶκατελήμφθηαὐτοῦτὰκεκρυμμένα
以掃何竟被搜查,他所隱藏的何竟被奪去!
How Esau has been ransacked, and his hidden things seized!
All the men of your covenant sent you away as far as your borders; your men of peace opposed you and prevailed against you; they set ambushes beneath you; there is no understanding in them.
From the day you stood opposite him, in the day when foreigners carried off his army, and strangers entered his gates and cast lots over Jerusalem, you too were like one of them.
Do not gaze at your brother's day in the day of strangers; do not gloat over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction; and do not speak arrogantly in the day of distress.
Do not enter the gates of the peoples in the day of their suffering; do not look, you too, upon their assembly in the day of their ruin; and do not join in attacking their army in the day of their destruction.
For just as you drank on my holy mountain, all the nations will drink wine; they will drink and go down, and they will be as though they had never existed.
And the house of Jacob will be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; and they will blaze up among them and devour them. And there will be no fire-bearer in the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.
And those in Nageb will possess the mountain of Esau, and those in the Sephela the foreigners; and they will possess the mountain of Ephraim and the plain of Samaria, and Benjamin and Galaaditis.
And this is the beginning of the exile for the sons of Israel: the land of the Canaanites as far as Sarepta; and the exile of Jerusalem as far as Ephratha; and they will inherit the cities of Nageb.