Obadiah 1

1 vision Obadiah thus to say Lord YHWH/God to/for Edom tidings to hear: hear from with LORD and envoy in/on/with nation to send: depart to arise: attack and to arise: attack upon her to/for battle

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

2 behold small to give: make you in/on/with nation to despise you(m. s.) much

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

3 arrogance heart your to deceive you to dwell in/on/with cleft crag height seat his to say in/on/with heart his who? to go down me land: soil

The 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?’

4 if to exult like/as eagle and if between: among star to set: make nest your from there to go down you utterance LORD

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

5 if thief to come (in): come to/for you if to ruin night how? to cease not to steal sufficiency their if to gather/restrain/fortify to come (in): come to/for you not to remain gleaning

“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?

6 how? to search Esau to enquire treasure his

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

7 till [the] border: boundary to send: depart you all human covenant your to deceive you be able to/for you human peace your food: bread your to set: make net underneath: under you nothing understanding in/on/with him

All 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 not in/on/with day [the] he/she/it (utterance *L(abh)*) LORD and to perish wise from Edom and understanding from mountain: mount (Mount) Esau

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

9 and to to be dismayed mighty man your Teman because to cut: eliminate man: anyone from mountain: mount (Mount) Esau from slaughter

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

10 from violence brother: male-sibling your Jacob to cover you shame and to cut: eliminate to/for forever: enduring

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

11 in/on/with day to stand: stand you from before in/on/with day to take captive be a stranger strength: rich his and foreign to come (in): come (gate his *Q(K)*) and upon Jerusalem to cast a lot allotted also you(m. s.) like/as one from them

In 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.

12 and not to see: see in/on/with day brother: male-sibling your in/on/with day misfortune his and not to rejoice to/for son: descendant/people Judah in/on/with day to perish they and not to magnify lip your in/on/with day distress

But 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.

13 not to come (in): come in/on/with gate people my in/on/with day calamity their not to see: see also you(m. s.) in/on/with distress: harm his in/on/with day calamity his and not to send: depart in/on/with strength: rich his in/on/with day calamity his

Don’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.

14 and not to stand: stand upon [the] plunder to/for to cut: eliminate [obj] survivor his and not to shut survivor his in/on/with day distress

Don’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.

15 for near day LORD upon all [the] nation like/as as which to make: do to make: do to/for you recompense your to return: return in/on/with head your

For 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.

16 for like/as as which to drink upon mountain: mount holiness my to drink all [the] nation continually and to drink and to swallow and to be like/as not to be

For 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.

17 and in/on/with mountain: mount Zion to be survivor and to be holiness and to possess: take house: household Jacob [obj] possession their

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

18 and to be house: household Jacob fire and house: household Joseph flame and house: household Esau to/for stubble and to burn/pursue in/on/with them and to eat them and not to be survivor to/for house: household Esau for LORD to speak: speak

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

19 and to possess: take [the] Negeb [obj] mountain: mount (Mount) Esau and [the] Shephelah [obj] Philistine and to possess: take [obj] land: country Ephraim and [obj] land: country Samaria and Benjamin [obj] [the] Gilead

Those 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.

20 and captivity [the] rampart [the] this to/for son: descendant/people Israel which Canaanite till Zarephath and captivity Jerusalem which in/on/with Sepharad to possess: take [obj] city [the] Negeb

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

21 and to ascend: rise to save in/on/with mountain: mount Zion to/for to judge [obj] mountain: mount (Mount) Esau and to be to/for LORD [the] kingship

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