Based on the Authorised Version (King James) with the words "God" and "LORD" restored to their original words, and various words (thee, thine, shouldest, crieth, didst, etc) and constructions (them that, etc) modernized.
1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus said the Adonai YHWH concerning
Edom; We have heard a rumour from YHWH, and an ambassador is sent among
the heathen, Arise, and let us rise up against her in battle.
2 Behold, I
have made you small among the heathen: you are greatly despised.
3 The
pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts of
the rock, whose habitation is high; who said in his heart, Who shall bring
me down to the ground?
4 Though you exalt yourself as the eagle, and though
you set your nest among the stars, thence will I bring you down, said YHWH.
5 If thieves came to you, if robbers by night, (how are you cut
off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? If the grapegatherers
came to you, would they not leave some grapes?
6 How are the things of Esau
searched out! How are his hidden things sought up!
7 All the men of your
confederacy have brought you even to the border: the men that were at peace
with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; those who eat your
bread have laid a wound under you: there is no understanding in him.
8 Shall I not in that day, said YHWH, even destroy the wise men out of
Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
9 And your mighty men, O
Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may
be cut off by slaughter.
10 For your violence against your brother Jacob shame
shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
11 In the day that
you stood on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away
captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon
Jerusalem, even you were as one of them.
12 But you should not have
looked on the day of your brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither
should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their
destruction; neither should you have spoken proudly in the day of
distress.
13 You should not have entered into the gate of my people in
the day of their calamity; yes, you should not have looked on their
affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their
substance in the day of their calamity;
14 Neither should you have stood
in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither should
you have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
15 For the day of YHWH is near upon all the heathen: as you have done,
it shall be done unto you: your reward shall return upon your own head.
16 For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen
drink continually, yes, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and
they shall be as though they had not been.
17 But upon mount Zion shall be
deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess
their possessions.
18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house
of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in
them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of
Esau; for YHWH has spoken it.
19 And they of the south shall possess
the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall
possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall
possess Gilead.
20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel
shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity
of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and
the kingdom shall be YHWH's.
Where this translation came from
Latest update: January 2008
(C) Selwyn Russell 2005
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