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

Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Edom, A report we have heard from Jehovah, And an ambassador among nations was sent, 'Rise, yea, let us rise against her for battle.'

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

Lo, little I have made thee among nations, Despised [art] thou exceedingly.

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 thy heart hath lifted thee up, O dweller in clifts of a rock, (A high place [is] his habitation, He is saying in his heart, 'Who doth bring me down [to] earth?')

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

If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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 have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings?

6 how? to search Esau to enquire treasure his

How hath Esau been searched out! Flowed out have his hidden things,

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

Unto the border sent thee have all thine allies, Forgotten thee, prevailed over thee, have thy friends, Thy bread they make a snare under thee, 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

Is it not in that day — an affirmation of Jehovah, That I have destroyed the wise out of Edom, And understanding out of the mount 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

And broken down have been thy mighty ones, O Teman, So that every one of the mount of Esau is cut off.

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

For slaughter, for violence [to] thy brother Jacob, Cover thee doth shame, And thou hast been cut off — to the age.

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 of thy standing over-against, In the day of strangers taking captive his force, And foreigners have entered his gates, And for Jerusalem have cast a lot, Even thou [art] as 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

And — thou dost not look on the day of thy brother, On the day of his alienation, Nor dost thou rejoice over sons of Judah, In the day of their destruction, Nor make great thy mouth in a 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

Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, Nor look, even thou, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, Nor send forth against its force in a day of its 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

Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, Nor deliver up its remnant in a 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 near [is] the day of Jehovah, on all the nations, As thou hast done, it is done to thee, Thy deed doth turn back on thine 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 ye have drunk on My holy mount, Drink do all the nations continually, And they have drunk and have swallowed, And they have been as they have 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

And in mount Zion there is an escape, And it hath been holy, And the house of Jacob have possessed 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

And the house of Jacob hath been a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame, And the house of Esau for stubble, And they have burned among them, And they have consumed them, And there is not a remnant to the house of Esau, For Jehovah hath 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

And they have possessed the south with the mount of Esau, And the low country with the Philistines, And they have possessed the field of Ephraim, And the field of Samaria, And Benjamin with 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

And the removed of this force of the sons of Israel, That [is with] the Canaanites unto Zarephat, And the removed of Jerusalem that [is] with the Sepharad, Possess the cities of the south.

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

And gone up have saviours on mount Zion, To judge the mount of Esau, And the kingdom hath been to Jehovah!'