Obadiah 11ObadiahEdom's pride and fallThe Orthodox Jewish Bible Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha The Holy Bible

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1. The Destruction of Edom

   (Jeremiah 49:7–22)

2. 1ENGOJBThe chazon (vision) of Ovadyah. Thus saith Adonoi Hashem concerning Edom: We have heard a report from Hashem, and an envoy is sent among the Goyim, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her (Edom) in battle.BSBBSB: This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom—We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, “Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!”—
3. 2ENGOJBHinei, I have made thee small among the Goyim; thou art greatly despised.BSBBSB: “Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.
4. 3ENGOJBThe zadon (pride, presumption, arrogance) of thine lev (heart) hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his lev: Who shall bring me down to the ground?BSBBSB: The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
5. 4ENGOJBThough thou exalt thyself to soar as the nesher, and though thou set thy nest among the kokhavim (stars), thence will I bring thee down, saith Hashem.BSBBSB: Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
6. 5ENGOJBIf ganavim (thieves) came to thee, if shodedei lailah (robbers by night) — oh how art thou cut off! — would they not have stolen only till they had enough? If the grape gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?BSBBSB: “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
7. 6ENGOJBHow is Esav searched out! How are his hidden treasures pillaged!BSBBSB: But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!
8. 7ENGOJBAll the men of thy alliance have forced thee and brought thee even to the border; the anshei shlomecha (the men that were at peace with thee) have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy lechem (bread) have laid a mazor (net, trap) under thee; there is none detecting it.BSBBSB: All the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace with you will deceive and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you without your awareness of it.
9. 8ENGOJBShall I not in that day, saith Hashem, even destroy the chachamim (wise men) out of Edom, and understanding out of the Har Esav?BSBBSB: In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
10. 9ENGOJBAnd thy gibborim (mighty men), O Teman, shall be dismayed and lose courage, to the end that every one of the Har Esav may be cut off by slaughter.BSBBSB: Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.
11. 10ENGOJBFor thy chamas against thy brother Ya'akov, bushah (shame) shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off l'olam (for ever).BSBBSB: Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
12. 11ENGOJBIn the day that thou stood aloof on the other side, in the day that the zarim (strangers) carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Yerushalayim, even thou wast as one of them.BSBBSB: On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
13. 12ENGOJBBut thou shouldest not have gloated over the day of thy brother in the day of his misfortune; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the Bnei Yehudah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the Yom Tzarah (Day of Trouble).BSBBSB: But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.
14. 13ENGOJBThou shouldest not have entered into the sha'ar Ami (gate of My people) in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;BSBBSB: You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.
15. 14ENGOJBNeither shouldest thou have stood in the crossroads, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did survive in the Yom Tzarah.BSBBSB: Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress.

16. The Deliverance of Israel

17. 15ENGOJBFor the Yom Hashem is near upon all the Goyim: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.BSBBSB: For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.
18. 16ENGOJBFor as ye have drunk upon My Har Kodesh (Holy Mountain), so shall all the Goyim drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.BSBBSB: For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.
19. 17ENGOJBBut upon Mount Tziyon shall be deliverance, and there shall be kodesh (holiness); and the Beis Ya'akov shall possess their inheritances.BSBBSB: But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will reclaim their possession.
20. 18ENGOJBAnd the Beis Ya'akov shall be an eish (fire), and the Beis Yosef a flame, and the Beis Esav for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the Beis Esav; for Hashem hath spoken.BSBBSB: Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble—Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.” For the LORD has spoken.
21. 19ENGOJBAnd they of the Negev shall possess Har Esav; and they of the Shefelah, the Philistines; and they shall possess the fields of Ephrayim, and the fields of Shomron; and Binyamin shall possess Gil'ad.BSBBSB: Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau; those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
22. 20ENGOJBAnd those of the Golus of Bnei Yisroel shall possess that of the Kena'anim, even unto Tzarphat; and those of the Golus of Yerushalayim, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the Negev.BSBBSB: And the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.
23. 21ENGOJBAnd Moshi'im (Deliverers) shall come up on Mount Tziyon to judge the Har Esav; and HaMamlachah (the Kingdom) shall be Hashemʼs.BSBBSB: The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.