1 The vision of Obadiah.This is what the Lord God has said about Edom: We have heard a message from the Lord; a messenger has been sent among the nations:“Rise up, and let us go to war against her.”
2 Look, I will make you insignificant among the nations;you will be deeply despised.
3 Your presumptuous heart has deceived you, you who live in clefts of the rock in your home on the heights,who say to yourself,“Who can bring me down to the ground? ”
4 Though you seem to soar like an eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down.This is the Lord’s declaration.
5 If thieves came to you, if marauders by night —how ravaged you would be! —wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?If grape pickers came to you,wouldn’t they leave some grapes?
6 How Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures searched out!