Obadiah 1:1 Cross References - LEB

¹ The vision of Obadiah. Thus says my Lord Yahweh concerning Edom:

⁷ Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem, the ones who said, "Lay it bare! Lay it bare to its foundation!"

² that sends messengers by the sea and in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a _⌊tall_⌋* and _⌊smooth_⌋* nation, to a people feared _⌊near and far_⌋,* a _⌊mighty, mighty_⌋* and trampling* nation, whose land rivers divide. ³ All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers of the earth, _⌊when a signal is raised on the_⌋* mountains, you must look, and _⌊when a trumpet is blown_⌋,* you must listen!

¹¹ The oracle of Dumah:
One is calling to me from Seir,
"Watchman, what _⌊of_⌋* the night? Watchman, what _⌊of_⌋* the night?"

⁴ For his officials are at Zoan, and his envoys reach to Hanes.

¹ Come near, nations, to hear; and peoples, listen attentively! Let the earth hear, and that which fills it; the world and all its offspring. ² For the anger of Yahweh is against all the nations, and his wrath is against all their armies; he has put them under a ban, he has given them up for slaughter. ³ And their slain shall be cast out; as for* their corpses, their stench shall go up. And the mountains shall melt with* their blood, ⁴ and all the host of heaven shall rot. And the skies shall roll up like a scroll, and all their host shall wither like the withering of a leaf from a vine, or* like the withering from a fig tree. ⁵ When my sword is drenched in the heavens,
look! It will descend upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, for judgment. ⁶ _⌊Yahweh has a sword_⌋;*
it is full of blood. It is covered with* fat, with* the blood of lambs and goats, with* the fat of the kidneys of rams, for _⌊Yahweh has a sacrifice_⌋* in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. ⁷ And wild oxen shall go down with them, and steers with strong bulls. And their land shall be drenched with* blood, and their soil shall be fattened with* fat. ⁸ For _⌊Yahweh has a day of vengeance_⌋,* a year of retribution for the strife of Zion. ⁹ And its streams shall be changed to pitch and its soil to sulfur, and its land shall become like burning pitch. ¹⁰ Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall be in ruins; forever and ever there will be no one who passes through her. ¹¹ But* the large bird and the hedgehog shall take possession of it, and the owl and the raven shall live in it. And he shall stretch the measuring line of confusion out over it, and the plumb line of emptiness. ¹² Its nobles—but no kingdom is there—shall call, and all its princes shall be nothing. ¹³ And thorns shall go up her citadel fortress, weeds* and thistle plants* in her fortresses; and it shall be the settlement of jackals, green grass for the daughters of an ostrich. ¹⁴ And desert creatures shall meet with hyenas, and a goat-demon shall call to his neighbor; surely there Lilith* shall repose, and she shall find a resting place for herself. ¹⁵ There the owl shall nest and lay and hatch and care for her chicks in her shadow; surely there the birds of prey shall be gathered, each one with her mate. ¹⁶ Seek from the book of Yahweh and _⌊read_⌋;*
none of these shall be missing; none shall miss her mate. For my* mouth _⌊is the one that_⌋* has commanded, and his spirit _⌊is the one that_⌋* has gathered them. ¹⁷ And he _⌊is the one that_⌋* has cast the lot for them, and his hand has apportioned it to them with the measuring line; they shall take possession of it forever, they shall live in it _⌊from generation to generation_⌋.*

¹ Who is this, coming from Edom, from Bozrah in bright red garments? Who is this honored in his garment, lying down in his great strength? "It is I, speaking in justice, _⌊mighty_⌋* to save!" ² Why are your garments* red, and your garments like he who treads in the winepress? ³ "I have trodden the winepress alone, and there was no man from the peoples with me. And I trod them in my anger, and I trampled them in my wrath, and spattered their juice on my garments, and stained all my clothing, ⁴ for the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my blood-vengeance has come! ⁵ And I looked, but* there was no helper, and I was appalled, but* there was no one who sustains, so* my arm came to assist me, and my wrath _⌊was what_⌋* sustained me. ⁶ And I trampled peoples in my anger, and I made them drunk in my wrath, and I brought their juice down to the earth."

⁴ _⌊Sanctify_⌋* war against her. Arise, and let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day turns, for the shadows of evening are lengthened. ⁵ Arise, and let us attack by night, and let us destroy her citadel fortresses."

²⁵ "Look, days are coming," _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh, "and I will call into account all those who are circumcised in the foreskin: ²⁶ Egypt, Judah, and Edom, and the _⌊Ammonites_⌋,* and Moab, and all those who are trimmed to the side, those who live in the desert,* for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart."

¹⁷ So I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh and I gave it* to all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me to drink:

²¹ Edom, and Moab, and the _⌊Ammonites_⌋;*

⁷ Concerning Edom, thus says Yahweh of hosts:
"Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel become lost from those who understand? Is their wisdom rotting? ⁸ Flee! Turn back! _⌊Get down low_⌋!* O inhabitants of Dedan. For I will bring upon him the disaster of Esau at the time when I will punish him. ⁹ If grape-gatherers come to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves in the night, they destroy only _⌊enough for them_⌋.* ¹⁰ But I have stripped Esau bare. I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to hide himself. His offspring are devastated, _⌊along with_⌋* his brothers, and his neighbors, and _⌊he is no more_⌋.* ¹¹ Leave your orphans. I will let them* live. And your widows, let them trust in me." ¹² For thus says Yahweh, "Look, those _⌊who are not condemned_⌋* to drink the cup must certainly drink it.* And are you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must certainly drink it.* ¹³ For I have sworn by myself," _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh, "that Bozrah will become as a horror, as a disgrace, as a waste, and as a curse. And all her towns will be _⌊everlasting sites of ruins_⌋."* ¹⁴ I have heard a message from Yahweh, and a messenger has been sent among the nations. "Gather and come against her, and rise for the battle." ¹⁵ "For look, I will make you small among the nations, despised by the humankind. ¹⁶ Your terror has deceived you, the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, you who seize the height of the hill. Though you make your nest high like the eagle, from there I will bring you down," _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh. ¹⁷ "And Edom will become as a horror, _⌊everyone who passes by it_⌋* will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its blows. ¹⁸ As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors," says Yahweh, "_⌊no one_⌋* will live there, and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in it. ¹⁹ Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan to _⌊a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream_⌋.* So _⌊I will chase him away hurriedly_⌋* from it. And whoever is chosen I will appoint over it. For who is like me, and who can summon me? And who is this, the shepherd who can stand _⌊before me_⌋?"* ²⁰ _⌊Therefore_⌋* hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Edom, and his plans that he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman. _⌊Surely_⌋* they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. _⌊Surely_⌋* he will cause to be desolated over them their grazing place. ²¹ The earth will quake from the sound of their falling. A cry of distress! Their voice will be heard at _⌊the Red Sea_⌋.* ²² Look, like an eagle he will go up and he will swoop down, and he will spread out his wings against Bozrah. And the heart of the warriors of Edom will be in that day like the heart of a woman who is in labor.

⁹ For look, I am going to stir up, and I am going to bring against Babylon a contingent of great nations from the land of the north. And they will draw up a battle formation against her, from there she will be captured. Their arrows are like a warrior who has achieved success, he does not return without success. ¹⁰ And Chaldea will be as booty, all those who plunder her will be satisfied," _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh. ¹¹ "Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my inheritance, though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass, and you neigh like the powerful stallions, ¹² your mother will be very ashamed. She who gave birth to you will be humiliated.* Look, she will be the least of the nations, a desert,* dry land, and wilderness.* ¹³ Because of the anger of Yahweh she will not be inhabited, but she will be a wasteland, all of her. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled and will hiss because of all her wounds. ¹⁴ Draw up a battle formation at Babylon all around, all those who bend the bow, shoot at her. You must not spare arrows,* for she has sinned against Yahweh. ¹⁵ Raise a war cry against her on all sides. _⌊She has surrendered_⌋.* Her towers have fallen, her walls are ruined. For this is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take revenge on her. As she has done to others, so do to her.

²⁷ Raise a banner in the land; blow a horn among the nations; prepare for holy war against her; summon the nations against her, the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; summon against her an official; bring up horses* like bristling creeping locusts.* ²⁸ Prepare the nations for holy war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and all their officials, and every land of their dominion.

⁴⁶ Now _⌊so that you are not fainthearted_⌋,* and you are afraid at the rumors* that are heard in the land— and in the year the rumor comes, and in the year after it the rumor, and violence is in the land, with ruler against ruler—

²¹ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup will pass, you will become drunk and strip yourself bare. ²² The punishment of your iniquity is completed, O daughter of Zion, your exile will not continue; but he will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will reveal your sins.

¹² Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because of the doings of Edom in avenging himself with vengeance for* the house of Judah, and so they became very guilty and* they avenged themselves on them," ¹³ therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "so* I will stretch out my hand against Edom and I will cut off from it both human and animal, and I will make it a ruin from Teman and Dedan; they will fall by the sword. ¹⁴ And I will exact my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my rage, and they will know my vengeance," _⌊declares_⌋* the Lord Yahweh.

³ and you must say to it, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against you, mountain of Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a wasteland. ⁴ Your cities I will make ruins, and you will be a desolation, and then you will know that I am Yahweh, ⁵ because there has been to you _⌊an ancient hostility_⌋,* and you handed over the _⌊Israelites_⌋* to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of _⌊their final punishment_⌋.* ⁶ Therefore _⌊as I live_⌋,"* _⌊declares_⌋* the Lord Yahweh, "Certainly to blood guilt I will prepare you and blood* will pursue; _⌊since_⌋* _⌊you did not hate blood_⌋,* it will pursue you. ⁷ And I will make the mountain of Seir into a desolation and ruin, and I will cut off from it both he who is crossing over and he who is returning. ⁸ And I will fill its mountains with its slain; your hills and your valleys and all of your watercourses, the slain by the sword will fall in them. ⁹ _⌊An everlasting desolation_⌋* I will make you, and your cities will not return, and you will know that I am Yahweh. ¹⁰ I do this because of your saying,* 'The two nations and the two lands, they will be _⌊mine_⌋,* and we will take possession of it,' and yet Yahweh was there. ¹¹ Therefore, _⌊as I live_⌋,"* _⌊declares_⌋* the Lord Yahweh, "so I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your jealousy that you did,* because of your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among them when I judge you. ¹² And you will know that I, Yahweh, I have heard all of your contemptible words that you said* against the mountains of Israel, _⌊saying_⌋,* 'They will be desolate; they are given to us as food.' ¹³ And you magnified yourself against me with your _⌊insolent speech_⌋,* and you spoke voluminously against me with your words—I heard! ¹⁴ Thus the Lord Yahweh says, '_⌊As the whole world rejoices_⌋,* I will make you a desolation. ¹⁵ _⌊Like your rejoicing over the inheritance of the house of Israel_⌋* _⌊because_⌋* it was desolate, I will do to you; you will be a desolation, mountain of Seir and all of Edom, indeed all of it; and they will know that I am Yahweh.'" '

¹⁹ Egypt will become a desolation, and Edom will become a _⌊desolate desert_⌋,* because of the violence they did against the children of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood.

¹¹ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Edom and for four I will not revoke the punishment,* because he pursued his brother with the sword! He stifled his compassion and his anger tore them apart _⌊continually_⌋,* and he kept his rage forever. ¹² So I will send a fire against Teman and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Bozrah."

¹³ The one who breaks out before them goes up; they break through and pass the gate, going out through it. Their king passes before them, Yahweh at their head.

³ but Esau I have hated. I have made his* mountain ranges a desolation, and given his inheritance to the jackals of the desert." ⁴ If Edom says, "We are shattered, but we will return and rebuild the ruins," Yahweh of hosts says this: "They may build, but I will tear down; and they will be called a territory of wickedness, and the people with whom Yahweh is angry forever."

⁶ And you are going to hear about wars and rumors of wars. See to it that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is not yet.

⁷ And when you hear about wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must happen, but the end is not yet.