عُوبَدْيا 1

١ 1 هَذِهِ نُبُوءَةُ عُوبَدْيَا: هَذَا مَا يَقُولُهُ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ بِشَأْنِ أَدُومَ: قَدْ بَلَغَنَا خَبَرٌ مِنْ عِنْدِ الرَّبِّ أَنَّهُ أَرْسَلَ رَسُولاً إِلَى الأُمَمِ قَائِلاً: «تَأَهَّبُوا، وَلْنَنْهَضْ لِمُحَارَبَةِ أَدُومَ».

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!”—

٢ 2 هَا أَنَا أَجْعَلُكَ صَغِيراً بَيْنَ الأُمَمِ وَأَشَدَّهَا احْتِقَاراً.

“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.

٣ 3 قَدْ غَرَّتْكَ كِبْرِيَاءُ قَلْبِكَ أَيُّهَا الْمُقِيمُ فِي شُقُوقِ الصُّخُورِ، وَمَسَاكِنُهُ فِي الْقِمَمِ، الْقَائِلُ فِي قَلْبِهِ: مَنْ يَهْوِي بِي إِلَى الأَرْضِ؟

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?’

٤ 4 وَلَكِنْ إِنْ كُنْتَ تُحَلِّقُ كَالنَّسْرِ وَوَكَانَتْ مَنَازِلُكَ مَبْنِيَّةً بَيْنَ الْكَوَاكِبِ، فَإِنِّي سَأَهْوِي بِكَ إِلَى الْحَضِيضِ يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,”

٥ 5 إِنِ اقْتَحَمَ اللُّصُوصُ بَيْتَكَ، وَهَاجَمَكَ النَّاهِبُونَ لَيْلاً، أَلا يَسْرِقُونَ مَا يَحْتَاجُونَ إِلَيْهِ فَقَطْ؟ وَإِنْ أَقْبَلَ إِلَيْكَ قَاطِفُو الْعِنَبِ، أَلا يُبْقُونَ خُصَاصَةً؟ وَلَكِنْ يَالَدَمَارِكَ!

“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?

٦ 6 إِذْ كَيْفَ تَمَّ تَفْتِيشُ عِيسُو وَنُقِبَتْ مَخَابِئُ كُنُوزِهِ؟

But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!

٧ 7 جَمِيعُ حُلَفَائِكَ طَرَدُوكَ إِلَى التُّخُومِ. خَدَعَكَ مُسَالِمُوكَ وَأَوْقَعُوا بِكَ الْهَزِيمَةَ، وَالَّذِينَ أَكَلُوا مِنْ خُبْزِكَ كَادُوا لَكَ وَأَنْتَ لَمْ تَفْهَمْ.

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.

٨ 8 أَلا أَسْتَأْصِلُ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ حُكَمَاءَ أَدُومَ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، وَأُزِيلُ الْفَهْمَ مِنْ جَبَلِ عِيسُو؟

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?

٩ 9 فَيَرْتَعِبَ أَبْطَالُكَ يَا تَيْمَانُ حَتَّى يَنْقَرِضَ قَتْلًا كُلُّ رَجُلٍ مِنْ جَبَلِ عِيسُو.

Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.

١٠ 10 فَمِنْ أَجْلِ مَا أَنْزَلْتَ بِأَخِيكَ يَعْقُوبَ مِنْ ظُلْمٍ، يَغْشَاكَ الْعَارُ وَتَنْقَرِضُ إِلَى الأَبَدِ.

Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

١١ 11 فَفِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ الَّذِي وَقَفْتَ فِيهِ بَعِيداً، يَوْمَ غَنِمَ الْغُرَبَاءُ كُنُوزَهُ، وَاقْتَحَمَ الأَجَانِبُ أَبْوَابَهُ وَأَلْقَوْا الْقُرْعَةَ عَلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ، كُنْتَ أَنْتَ أَيْضاً كَوَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ.

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.

١٢ 12 مَا كَانَ يَجِبُ أَنْ تَشْمَتَ بِيَوْمِ مَصِيرِ أَخِيكَ، فِي يَوْمِ فَاجِعَتِهِ، وَمَا كَانَ يَجِبُ أَنْ تَبْتَهِجَ فِي يَوْمِ دَمَارِ شَعْبِ يَهُوذَا أَوْ تَتَبَاهَى فِي يَوْمِ الضِّيقِ.

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.

١٣ 13 وَمَا كَانَ يَجِبُ أَنْ تَقْتَحِمَ أَبْوَابَ شَعْبِي فِي يَوْمِ كَارِثَتِهِ، أَوْ تَشْمَتَ لِمُصِيبَتِهِ فِي يَوْمِ نَكْبَتِهِ، أَوْ تَنْهَبَ ثَرْوَتَهُ فِي يَوْمِ بَلِيَّتِهِ،

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.

١٤ 14 أَوْ تَقِفَ عِنْدَ مُفْتَرَقِ الطُّرُقِ لِتَقْضِيَ عَلَى النَّاجِينَ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ وَتُسَلِّمَ الْبَاقِينَ الأَحْيَاءَ مِنْهُمْ فِي يَوْمِ الضِّيقِ.

Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress.

١٥ 15 لأَنَّ يَوْمَ الرَّبِّ قَرِيبٌ آتٍ عَلَى كُلِّ الأُمَمِ، وَكَمَا فَعَلْتَ، لابُدَّ أَنْ يُفْعَلَ بِكَ أَيْضاً، فَيَرْتَدَّ عَمَلُكَ عَلَى رَأْسِكَ.

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.

١٦ 16 فَإِنَّهُ كَمَا شَرِبْتَ عَلَى جَبَلِ قُدْسِي فَإِنَّ جَمِيعَ الأُمَمِ تَشْرَبُ فِي كُلِّ حِينٍ. يَشْرَبُونَ وَيَجْرَعُونَ وَيَتَلاشَوْنَ كَمَنْ لَمْ يَكُونُوا.

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.

١٧ 17 أَمَّا جَبَلُ صِهْيَوْنَ فَيُصْبِحُ مَلاذَ النَّجَاةِ، وَيَكُونُ قُدْساً، وَيَرِثُ بَيْتُ يَعْقُوبَ نَصِيبَهُ.

But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will reclaim their possession.

١٨ 18 وَيَصِيرُ بَيْتُ يَعْقُوبَ نَاراً، وَبَيْتُ يُوسُفَ لَهِيباً، وَبَيْتُ عِيسُو قَشّاً فَيُوْقِدُونَهُمْ وَيَلْتَهِمُونَهُمْ، وَلا يُفْلِتُ مِنْ بَيْتِ عِيسُو أَحَدٌ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

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.”

١٩ 19 وَيَرِثُ أَهْلُ النَّقَبِ جَبَلَ عِيسُو، وَسُكَّانُ السُّهُولِ أَرْضَ الْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ، وَيَمْلِكُونَ أَرْضَ أَفْرَايِمَ وَبِلادَ السَّامِرَةِ، وَيَرِثُ بَنْيَامِينُ جِلْعَادَ.

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.

٢٠ 20 وَيَسْتَوْلِي جَيْشُ مَسْبِيِّي بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ عَلَى أَرْضِ الْكَنْعَانِيِّينَ حَتَّى صِرْفَةَ، وَيَحْتَلُّ مَسْبِيُّو أُورُشَلِيمَ فِي صَفَارِدَ مُدُنَ جَنُوبِ يَهُوذَا.

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.

٢١ 21 وَيَصْعَدُ الْمُنْقِذُونَ إِلَى جَبَلِ صِهْيَوْنَ لِيَحْكُمُوا جَبَلَ عِيسُو، وَيُصْبِحُ الْمُلْكُ لِلرَّبِّ.

The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.