The vision of Edom. Call to me out of Seir; guard the bulwarks.

I watch in the morning and the night, if you would inquire, inquire, and dwell by me.

Draw near, you nations; and hearken, you princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people therein.

And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their stench shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.

My sword has been made drunk in heaven; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.

And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.

And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;

and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it; and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it.

And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strongholds; and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court of ostriches.

There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young; there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.

And He shall cast lots for them, and His hand has portioned out [their] pasture, [saying], You shall inherit [the land] forever; they shall rest on it [throughout] all generations.

Who is this that has come from Edom, [with] red garments from Bosor? Thus fair in his apparel, with mighty strength? I speak of righteousness and saving judgment.

I am full of trodden [grapes], and of the nations there is not a man with Me; and I trampled them in My fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.

And I looked, and there was no helper; and I observed, and none upheld; therefore My arm delivered them, and My anger drew near.

I remembered the mercy of the Lord, the praises of the Lord in all things in which He recompenses us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel; He deals with us according to His mercy, and according to the abundance of His righteousness.

Concerning Edom, thus says the Lord: There is no longer wisdom in Teman, counsel has perished from the wise ones, their wisdom is gone,

For grape gatherers have come, who shall not leave to you a remnant; as thieves by night, they shall lay their hand upon [your possessions].

for your fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in Me.

For by Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, that you shall be in the midst of her an impassable [land], and a reproach, and a curse; and all her cities shall be deserted forever.

I have made you small among the nations, utterly contemptible among men.

And Edom shall be a desert; everyone that passes by shall hiss at it.

Behold, he shall come up as a lion out of the midst of the Jordan to the place of Etham; for I will speedily drive them from it, and I will set the young men against her; for who is like Me? And who will withstand Me? And who [is] this shepherd, who shall confront Me?

For at the sound of their fall the earth was scared, and the cry of the sea was not heard.

Thus says the Lord: Because of what the Edomites have done in taking vengeance on the house of Judah, and [because they] have remembered injuries, and have exacted full recompense;

And I will execute My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel; and they shall deal in Edom according to My anger and according to My wrath, and they shall know My vengeance, says the Lord.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

and say to it, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a waste, and you shall be made desolate.

Because you have been a perpetual enemy, and have lied in wait craftily for the house of Israel, with the hand of enemies with a sword, in the time of injustice, at the last:

And I will make Mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off of it [both] men and cattle;

I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited anymore; and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord, I will even deal with you according to your enmity, and I will be made known to you when I shall judge you;

and you have spoken swelling words against Me with your mouth: I have heard [them].

You shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all of Edom; and it shall be utterly consumed; and you shall know that I am the Lord their God.

The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God to Edom; I have heard a report from the Lord, and He has sent forth a message to the nations.

Behold, I have made you small among the Gentiles: you are greatly dishonored. The pride of your heart has elated you, dwelling [as you do] in the holes of the rocks, [as one that] exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?

If thieves came in to you, or robbers by night, where would you have been cast away? Would they not have stolen just enough for themselves? And if grape-gatherers went in to you, would they not leave a gleaning?

They sent you to your coasts: all the men of your covenant have withstood you; your allies have prevailed against you, they have set snares under you: they have no understanding.

And your warriors from Teman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

From the day that you stood in opposition [to him], in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, you also were as one of them.

Neither should you have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet should you have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor should you have attacked their host in the day of their perishing.

Because one will say, Edom has been overthrown, but let us return and rebuild the desolate places; thus says the Lord Almighty, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The borders of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord has set Himself forever.

And you shall live by your sword, and shall serve your brother; and there shall be [a time] when you shall break and loosen his yoke from off your neck.

And Esau was angry with Jacob because of the blessing, with which his father blessed him; and Esau said in his mind, Let the days of my father's mourning draw near, that I may kill my brother Jacob.

And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying, Thus says your brother Israel; You know all the distress that has come upon us.

And we cried to the Lord, and the Lord heard our voice, and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt; and now we are in the city of Kadesh, at the extremity of your coasts.

And Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, and if otherwise, I will go forth to meet you in war.

And he said, You shall not pass through me; and Edom went forth to meet him with a great army, and a mighty hand.

And command the people, saying, You are going through the borders of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they shall fear you, and dread you greatly.

Buy food from them for money, and eat, and you shall receive water from them by measure for money, and drink.

And we passed by our brethren the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, by the way of Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber; and we turned and passed by the way of the desert of Moab.

You shall not abhor an Edomite, because he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a stranger in his land.

because the Edomites had attacked [him] and attacked Judah, and taken a number of prisoners.

Against Your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against Your saints.

For they have taken counsel together with one consent; they have made a confederacy against You;

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze [it], raze [it], even to its foundations.

CHSEN. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land; yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to you: you shall be drunken, and pour forth.

THAU. O daughter of Zion, your iniquity has come to an end; He shall no longer carry you captive: He has visited your iniquities, O daughter of Edom; He has discovered your sins.

Thus says the Lord: Because of what the Edomites have done in taking vengeance on the house of Judah, and [because they] have remembered injuries, and have exacted full recompense;

Because you have been a perpetual enemy, and have lied in wait craftily for the house of Israel, with the hand of enemies with a sword, in the time of injustice, at the last:

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, verily you have sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord, I will even deal with you according to your enmity, and I will be made known to you when I shall judge you;

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Judah, because they have shed righteous blood in their land.

Because of the slaughter and the sin [committed against] your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.

And you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day of strangers; nor should you have rejoiced against the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither should you have boasted in the day of their affliction.

Neither should you have stood at the opening of their passages, to destroy utterly those of them that were escaping; neither should you have shut up his fugitives in the day of affliction.

I have loved you, says the Lord. And you said, How have You loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? Says the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,

Will You be angry with us forever? Will You continue Your wrath from generation to generation?

Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry; for anger will rest in the bosom of fools.

I will not take vengeance on you forever, neither will I be always angry with you; for My Spirit shall go forth from Me, and I have created all breath.

Who is a God like You, canceling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of His inheritance? And He has not kept His anger for a testimony, for He delights in mercy.

"Be angry, and do not sin": do not let the sun set on your anger,

nor give opportunity to the devil.

Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.