Obadiah

1The vision of Obadiah. This is what the LordGODsays about Edom. We have heard news from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.

2Behold,I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

3The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

4Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says the LORD.

5“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?

6How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

7All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”

8“Won’t I in that day”, says the LORD, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?

9Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

10For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

11In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.

12But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

13Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

14Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

15For the day of the LORD is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

16For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

17But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

18The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

19Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.

20The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.

21Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be the LORD’s.

1ĐỨC CHÚA là Chúa Thượng phán về Ê-đôm như sau :

2ngươi bị khinh dể quá đỗi.

3Ngươi tự nhủ trong lòng : “Nào ai đẩy được ta xuống đất ?”

4Ta sẽ đẩy ngươi xuống khỏi đó, – sấm ngôn của ĐỨC CHÚA.

5chúng có chừa lại gì, ngoài phần để cho mót không ?

6Các kho tàng nó chôn giấu đều bị khui ra.

7lại gài bẫy hại ngươi và nói : “Nó đã quẫn trí rồi !”

8đuổi người tài trí ra khỏi núi Ê-xau ?

9khiến mọi người bị diệt trừ khỏi núi Ê-xau.

10nên ngươi sẽ phải ê chề nhục nhã và bị tiêu diệt đến muôn đời.

11cả ngươi nữa, ngươi cũng vào hùa với chúng.

12đừng to mồm vào ngày nó lâm cơn khốn quẫn.

13đừng vơ vét tài sản của nó vào ngày nó lâm nạn.

14vào ngày chúng gặp cơn khốn quẫn.

15nợ ân oán sẽ đổ xuống đầu ngươi.

16Chúng sẽ uống, sẽ nốc vào, rồi hoá ra như chưa bao giờ hiện hữu.

17những kẻ đã tước đoạt nó.

18Quả thế, ĐỨC CHÚA đã phán như vậy.

19và Ben-gia-min sẽ chiếm Ga-la-át.

20sẽ chiếm hữu các thành của Ne-ghép.

21Và ĐỨC CHÚA sẽ nắm trọn vương quyền.