Obadiah 1
1 The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been sent among the nations, saying, Up! and let us make war against her.
| חזון עבדיה כה אמר אדני יהוה לאדום שמועה שמענו מאת יהוה וציר בגוים שלח--קומו ונקומה עליה למלחמה |
2 See, I have made you small among the nations: you are much looked down on.
| הנה קטן נתתיך בגוים בזוי אתה מאד |
3 You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?
| זדון לבך השיאך שכני בחגוי סלע מרום שבתו אמר בלבו מי יורדני ארץ |
4 Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.
| אם תגביה כנשר ואם בין כוכבים שים קנך--משם אורידך נאם יהוה |
5 If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?
| אם גנבים באו לך אם שודדי לילה--איך נדמיתה הלוא יגנבו דים אם בצרים באו לך הלוא ישאירו עללות |
6 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for!
| איך נחפשו עשו נבעו מצפניו |
7 All the men who were united with you have been false to you, driving you out to the edge of the land: the men who were at peace with you have overcome you; they have taken their heritage in your place.
| עד הגבול שלחוך כל אנשי בריתך--השיאוך יכלו לך אנשי שלמך לחמך ישימו מזור תחתיך--אין תבונה בו |
8 Will I not, in that day, says the Lord, take away the wise men out of Edom, and wisdom out of the mountain of Esau?
| הלוא ביום ההוא נאם יהוה והאבדתי חכמים מאדום ותבונה מהר עשו |
9 And your men of war, O Teman, will be overcome with fear, so that every one of them may be cut off from the mountain of Esau.
| וחתו גבוריך תימן למען יכרת איש מהר עשו מקטל |
10 Because you were the cause of violent death and because of your cruel behaviour to your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and will be cut off for ever.
| מחמס אחיך יעקב תכסך בושה ונכרת לעולם |
11 Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them.
| ביום עמדך מנגד ביום שבות זרים חילו ונכרים באו שערו ועל ירושלם ידו גורל--גם אתה כאחד מהם |
12 Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble.
| ואל תרא ביום אחיך ביום נכרו ואל תשמח לבני יהודה ביום אבדם ואל תגדל פיך ביום צרה |
13 Do not go into the doors of my people on the day of their downfall; do not be looking on their trouble with pleasure on the day of their downfall, or put your hands on their goods on the day of their downfall.
| אל תבוא בשער עמי ביום אידם אל תרא גם אתה ברעתו ביום אידו ואל תשלחנה בחילו ביום אידו |
14 And do not take your place at the cross-roads, cutting off those of his people who get away; and do not give up to their haters those who are still there in the day of trouble.
| ואל תעמד על הפרק להכרית את פליטיו ואל תסגר שרידיו ביום צרה |
15 For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head.
| כי קרוב יום יהוה על כל הגוים כאשר עשית יעשה לך גמלך ישוב בראשך |
16 For as you have been drinking on my holy mountain, so will all the nations go on drinking without end; they will go on drinking and the wine will go down their throats, and they will be as if they had never been.
| כי כאשר שתיתם על הר קדשי ישתו כל הגוים תמיד ושתו ולעו והיו כלוא היו |
17 But in Mount Zion some will be kept safe, and it will be holy; and the children of Jacob will take their heritage.
| ובהר ציון תהיה פליטה והיה קדש וירשו בית יעקב את מורשיהם |
18 And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it.
| והיה בית יעקב אש ובית יוסף להבה ובית עשו לקש ודלקו בהם ואכלום ולא יהיה שריד לבית עשו כי יהוה דבר |
19 And they will take the South, and the lowland, and the country of Ephraim, and Gilead, as their heritage.
| וירשו הנגב את הר עשו והשפלה את פלשתים וירשו את שדה אפרים ואת שדה שמרון ובנימן את הגלעד |
20 And those of the children of Israel who were the first to be taken away as prisoners, will have their heritage among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and those who were taken away from Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will have the towns of the South.
| וגלת החל הזה לבני ישראל אשר כנענים עד צרפת וגלת ירושלם אשר בספרד--ירשו את ערי הנגב |
21 And those who have been kept safe will come up from Mount Zion to be judges of the mountain of Esau; and the kingdom will be the Lord's.
| ועלו מושעים בהר ציון לשפט את הר עשו והיתה ליהוה המלוכה |
