Abdias Propheta 1
1 Visio Abdiae. Haec dicit Dominus Deus ad Edom: Auditum audivimus a Domino, et legatum ad gentes misit: Surgite, et consurgamus adversus eum in praelium.
Thus said Lord YHWH to Edom (We have heard a report from YHWH, And an ambassador among nations was sent, “Rise, indeed, let us rise against her for battle”):
2 Ecce parvulum dedi te in Gentibus: contemptibilis tu es valde.
“Behold, I have made you little among nations, You [are] despised exceedingly.
3 Superbia cordis tui extulit te, habitantem in scissuris petrarum, exaltantem solium tuum: qui dicis in corde tuo: Quis detrahet me in terram?
The pride of your heart has lifted you up, O dweller in clefts of a rock (A high place [is] his habitation, He is saying in his heart: Who brings me down [to] earth?)
4 Si exaltatus fueris ut aquila, et si inter sidera posueris nidum tuum: inde detraham te, dicit Dominus.
If you go up high as an eagle, And if you set your nest between stars, From there I bring you down,” A declaration of YHWH.
5 Si fures introissent ad te, si latrones per noctem, quomodo conticuisses? nonne furati essent sufficientia sibi? si vindemiatores introissent ad te, numquid saltem racemum reliquissent tibi?
“If thieves have come in to you, If spoilers of the night, How have you been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to you, Do they not leave gleanings?
6 Quomodo scrutati sunt Esau, investigaverunt abscondita eius?
How has Esau been searched out! His hidden things have flowed out,
7 Usque ad terminum emiserunt te: omnes viri foederis tui illuserunt tibi: invaluerunt adversum te viri pacis tuae: qui comedunt tecum, ponent insidias subter te: non est prudentia in eo.
All your allies have sent you to the border, Forgotten you, prevailed over you, have your friends, They make your bread a snare under you, There is no understanding in him!
8 Numquid non in die illa, dicit Dominus, perdam sapientes de Idumaea, et prudentiam de monte Esau?
Is it not in that day,” a declaration of YHWH, “That I have destroyed the wise out of Edom, And understanding out of the mountain of Esau?
9 Et timebunt fortes tui a Meridie, ut intereat vir de monte Esau.
And your mighty ones have been broken down, O Teman, So that everyone of the mountain of Esau is cut off.
10 Propter interfectionem, et propter iniquitatem in fratrem tuum Iacob, operiet te confusio, et peribis in aeternum.
For slaughter, for violence [to] your brother Jacob, Shame covers you, And you have been cut off for all time.
11 In die cum stares adversus eum, quando capiebant alieni exercitum eius, et extranei ingrediebantur portas eius, et super Ierusalem mittebant sortem: tu quoque eras quasi unus ex eis.
In the day of your standing aloof from the opposite [side], In the day of strangers taking his force captive, And foreigners have entered his gates, And have cast a lot for Jerusalem, Even you [are] as one of them!
12 Et non despicies in die fratris tui, in die peregrinationis eius: et non laetaberis super filios Iuda in die perditionis eorum: et non magnificabis os tuum in die angustiae.
And—you do not look on the day of your brother, On the day of his alienation, Nor do you rejoice over sons of Judah, In the day of their destruction, Nor make your mouth great in a day of distress.
13 Neque ingredieris portam populi mei in die ruinae eorum: neque despicies et tu in malis eius in die vastitatis illius: et non emitteris adversus exercitum eius in die vastitatis illius.
Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, Nor look, even you, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, Nor send forth against its force in a day of its calamity,
14 Neque stabis in exitibus ut interficias eos qui fugerint: et non concludes reliquos eius in die tribulationis.
Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, Nor deliver up its remnant in a day of distress.
15 Quoniam iuxta est dies Domini super omnes gentes: sicut fecisti, fiet tibi: retributionem tuam convertet in caput tuum.
For near [is] the Day of YHWH, on all the nations, As you have done, it is done to you, Your deed turns back on your own head.
16 Quomodo enim bibisti super montem sanctum meum, bibent omnes Gentes iugiter: et bibent, et absorbebunt, et erunt quasi non sint.
For—as you have drunk on My holy mountain, All the nations drink continually, And they have drunk and have swallowed, And they have been as [if] they have not been.
17 Et in monte Sion erit salvatio, et erit sanctus: et possidebit domus Iacob eos qui se possederant.
And in Mount Zion there is an escape, And it has been holy, And the house of Jacob has possessed their possessions.
18 Et erit domus Iacob ignis, et domus Ioseph flamma, et domus Esau stipula: et succendentur in eis, et devorabunt eos: et non erunt reliquiae domus Esau, quia Dominus locutus est.
And the house of Jacob has 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 YHWH has spoken.
19 Et hereditabunt hi, qui ad Austrum sunt, montem Esau, et qui in campestribus Philisthiim: et possidebunt regionem Ephraim, et regionem Samariae: et Beniamin possidebit Galaad.
And they have possessed the south with the mountain 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 Et transmigratio exercitus huius filiorum Israel, omnia loca Chananaeorum usque ad Sareptam: et transmigratio Ierusalem, quae in Bosphoro est, possidebit civitates Austri.
And the expulsion of this force of the sons of Israel, That [is with] the Canaanites to Zarephat, And the expulsion of Jerusalem that [is] with the Sepharad, Possess the cities of the south.
21 Et ascendent salvatores in montem Sion iudicare montem Esau: et erit Domino regnum.
And saviors have gone up on Mount Zion, To judge the mountain of Esau, And the kingdom has been to YHWH!
