Verse 1

Obadiah 1:1

Literal Standard Version

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1 Thus said Lord YHWH to Edom || (We have heard a report from YHWH, || And an ambassador among nations was sent, || “Rise, indeed, let us rise against her for battle”):

Original Language Text

hebrew

חֲז֖וֹן עֹֽבַדְיָ֑ה כֹּֽה אָמַר֩ אֲדֹנָ֨/י יְהוִ֜ה לֶ/אֱד֗וֹם שְׁמוּעָ֨ה שָׁמַ֜עְנוּ מֵ/אֵ֤ת יְהוָה֙ וְ/צִיר֙ בַּ/גּוֹיִ֣ם שֻׁלָּ֔ח ק֛וּמוּ וְ/נָק֥וּמָה עָלֶי/הָ לַ/מִּלְחָמָֽה

English Translation

The vision of Obadiah: Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a message from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle."

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Chapter 1 Context

1 Thus said Lord YHWH to Edom || (We have heard a report from YHWH, || And an ambassador among nations...

2 “Behold, I have made you little among nations, || You are despised exceedingly. Focus ↗

3 The pride of your heart has lifted you up, || O dweller in clefts of a rock || (A high place is his... Focus ↗

4 If you go up high as an eagle, || And if you set your nest between stars, || From there I bring you... Focus ↗

5 “If thieves have come in to you, || If spoilers of the night, || How have you been cut off! Do they... Focus ↗

6 How has Esau been searched out! His hidden things have flowed out, Focus ↗

7 All your allies have sent you to the border, || Forgotten you, prevailed over you, have your friends... Focus ↗

8 Is it not in that day,” a declaration of YHWH, || “That I have destroyed the wise out of Edom, || An... Focus ↗

9 And your mighty ones have been broken down, O Teman, || So that everyone of the mountain of Esau is... Focus ↗

10 For slaughter, for violence to your brother Jacob, || Shame covers you, || And you have been cut off... Focus ↗

11 In the day of your standing aloof from the opposite side, || In the day of strangers taking his forc... Focus ↗

12 And—you do not look on the day of your brother, || On the day of his alienation, || Nor do you rejoi... Focus ↗

13 Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, || Nor look, even you, on its misfortu... Focus ↗

14 Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, || Nor deliver up its remnant in a day of distress. Focus ↗

15 For near is the Day of YHWH, on all the nations, || As you have done, it is done to you, || Your dee... Focus ↗

16 For—as you have drunk on My holy mountain, || All the nations drink continually, || And they have dr... Focus ↗

17 And in Mount Zion there is an escape, || And it has been holy, || And the house of Jacob has possess... Focus ↗

18 And the house of Jacob has been a fire, || And the house of Joseph a flame, || And the house of Esau... Focus ↗

19 And they have possessed the south with the mountain of Esau, || And the low country with the Philist... Focus ↗

20 And the expulsion of this force of the sons of Israel, || That is with the Canaanites to Zarephat, |... Focus ↗

21 And saviors have gone up on Mount Zion, || To judge the mountain of Esau, || And the kingdom has bee... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Obadiah
Chapter: Chapter 1 (21 verses)
Version: Literal Standard Version

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