{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/obadiah/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:35:56.574Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Obadiah","bookSlug":"obadiah","chapter":1,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":1,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"The vision of Abdias. Thus saith the Lord God to Edom: We have heard a rumour from the Lord, and he hath sent an ambassador to the nations: Arise, and let us rise up to battle against him. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art exceeding contemptible. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest in thy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground ? "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If thieves had gone in to thee, if robbers by night, how wouldst thou have held thy peace? would they not have stolen till they had enough ? if the grapegatherers had come in to thee, would they not have left thee at the least a cluster? "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out his hidden things? "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"They have sent thee out even to the border: all the men of thy confederacy have deceived thee: the men of thy peace have prevailed against thee: they that eat with thee shall lay snares under thee: there is no wisdom in him. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, destroy the wise out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau ? "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother Jacob, confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"But thou shalt not look on in the day of thy brother, in the day of his leaving his country: and thou shalt not rejoice over the children of Juda, in the day of their destruction: and thou shalt not magnify thy mouth in the day of distress. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of my people in the day of their ruin: neither shalt thou also look on in his evils in the day of his calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against his army in the day of his desolation. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Neither shalt thou stand in the crossways to kill them that flee: and thou shalt not shut up them that remain of him in the day of tribulation. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For the day of the Lord is at hand upon all nations: as thou hast done, so shall it be done to thee: he will turn thy reward upon thy own head. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so all nations shall drink continually: and they shall drink, and sup up, and they shall be as though they were not. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And in mount Sion shall be salvation, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess those that possessed them. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble: and they shall be kindled in them, and shall devour them: and there shall be no remains of the house of Esau, for the Lord hath spoken it. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And they that are toward the south, shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they that are in the plains, the Philistines: and they shall possess the country of Ephraim, and the country of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Galaad. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, all the places of the Chanaanites even to Sarepta: and the captivity of Jerusalem that is in Bospho- rus, shall possess the cities of the south. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And saviours shall come up into mount Sion to judge the mount of Esau: and the kingdom shall be for the Lord."}],"citation":{"inline":"Obadiah 1 (DRB)","markdown":"[Obadiah 1](https://primebible.com/drb/obadiah/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/obadiah/1 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}