Obadiah 1:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ The vision of Obadiah. The Sovereign Lord Jehovah (YHWH) spoke concerning Edom: »We have heard news from Jehovah. An ambassador is sent to the nations, saying, we must stand up against her (Edom) in battle.«

⁷ O Jehovah, remember the people of Edom. Remember what they did the day Jerusalem was captured. They said: »Tear it down! Tear it down to its foundation.«

² It sends messengers by sea in boats made of reeds that skim over the surface of the water. »Go, swift messengers, to a tall and smooth-skinned people, a people who are feared far and near, a strong and aggressive nation, whose land is divided by rivers.« ³ Look when someone raises a flag on the mountains. Listen when someone blows a ram's horn, all you inhabitants of the world, you who live on the earth.

¹¹ This is the divine REVELATION ABOUT EDOM. He calls to me from Seir: »Watchman, what of the night? How much of the night is left? Watchman, what of the night?«

⁴ »Their princes are at Zoan and their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.

¹ Draw near, people of all nations! Gather around and listen. Let the whole earth and everyone living on it come here and pay attention. ² JEHOVAH IS ANGRY WITH ALL THE NATIONS. He is furious with all their armies. He has condemned them for destruction. He has handed them over to be slaughtered. ³ Their dead bodies will be thrown out. A stench will rise from their corpses. The mountains will be laid waste with their blood. ⁴ All the stars in the sky will dissolve. The heavens will be rolled up like a scroll. The stars will fade away like leaves fall from a vine or fruit from a tree. ⁵ My sword is covered with blood in the heavens. It will fall on EDOM and on the people I have claimed for destruction. ⁶ Jehovah’s sword is covered with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams' kidneys. Jehovah will receive a sacrifice in Bozrah, a huge slaughter in the land of Edom. ⁷ Wild oxen will be killed with them, young bulls along with rams. Their land will be drenched with blood. Their dust will be covered with fat. ⁸ Jehovah will have a day of vengeance! He will have a year of retribution (recompense) in defense of Zion. ⁹ Edom's streams will be turned to tar. Its soil will be turned to burning sulfur. Its land will become blazing tar. ¹⁰ They will not be extinguished day or night, and smoke will always go up from them. Edom will lie in ruins for generations. No one will ever travel through it. ¹¹ Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. Porcupines and crows will live there. He will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of destruction over it. ¹² There are no nobles to rule a kingdom. All of its princes have disappeared. ¹³ Its palaces are covered with thorns. Its fortresses have nettles and thistles. It will become a home for jackals and a place for ostriches. ¹⁴ Hyenas will meet with jackals. Male goats will call to their mates. Screech owls will rest there and find a resting place for themselves. ¹⁵ Arrow snakes will make their nests there, lay eggs, and hatch them. They will gather their young under their shadow. Vultures also will gather there, each one with its mate. ¹⁶ Search Jehovah’s book and read it out loud. Not one of these animals will be missing. Not one will lack a mate, because Jehovah has commanded it, and his Spirit will gather them together. ¹⁷ He is the one who casts the lot for them, and his hand divides up the land for them with a measuring line. They will possess it permanently and live there for generations.

⁴ Prepare for war against her. »Arise, and let us attack at noon.« »Woe to us, for the day declines (is nearly over), for the shadows of the evening lengthen!« ⁵ »Arise, and let us attack at night and destroy her palaces!«

²⁵ »The days are coming,« proclaims Jehovah, »when I will punish all who are circumcised [only in the flesh]. Yet they are not circumcised [in the heart]. ²⁶ »I will punish Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, and Moab. I will punish all who shave the hair on their foreheads or live in the desert. Even though all these nations are uncircumcised, all Israel has uncircumcised hearts.«

¹ Who is this coming from Bozrah in Edom with his clothes stained bright red? Who is this dressed in splendor, going forward with great strength? It is I, Jehovah! I am coming to announce my victory. I am powerful enough to save you! ² Why are your clothes red and your garments like those who trample grapes in a winepress? ³ »I have trampled alone in the winepress. No one was with me. In my anger I trampled on people. In my wrath I stomped on them. Their blood splattered my clothes so all my clothing has been stained. ⁴ »The day of vengeance was in my heart. The year for my reclaiming you has come. ⁵ »I looked, but there was no help. I was astounded that there was no outside support. So my own arm (power) brought me salvation. My anger supported me. ⁶ »In my wrath I trampled on people. In my rage I made them drunk and poured their blood on the ground.«

¹⁷ So I took the cup from Jehovah’s hand. I made all the nations to whom Jehovah sent me drink from it.

²¹ Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon;

⁹ »I am going to stir up an alliance of strong nations from the north and bring it against Babylon. Those nations will take up positions against Babylon. Babylon will be captured from the north. Its enemy's arrows will be like skilled soldiers who don't come back empty-handed. ¹⁰ »The Babylonians will become the prize. All who loot them will get everything they want,« declares Jehovah. ¹¹ »You are happy and excited. You have looted the people who belong to me. You dance around like calves on the grass and neigh like stallions. ¹² »But your mother will be greatly ashamed. The woman who gave birth to you will be disgraced. Babylon, you will be the least important nation. You will become a parched desert. ¹³ »No one will live in Babylon because of Jehovah’s anger. It will be completely abandoned. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified and hiss at all its wounds. ¹⁴ »Take up your positions around Babylon, all you archers with bows. Shoot at it and do not save any arrows. For the people of Babylon have sinned against Jehovah. ¹⁵ »Shout a war cry against them on every side. They will surrender. Their towers will fall and their walls will be torn down. Since this is Jehovah’s vengeance, take revenge against them. Do to them what they did to others.

²⁷ Raise your battle flag throughout the world. Blow the ram's horn among the nations. Prepare nations to attack Babylon. Tell the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz to attack it. Appoint a commander to lead the attack. Bring up horses like a swarm of locusts. ²⁸ Prepare nations to attack Babylon. Prepare the king of the Medes, their governors, all their deputies, and all the countries that they rule.

⁴⁶ »Do not lose courage or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land. One rumor comes one year; another rumor comes the next year. Rumors of violence are in the land. Rumors that one ruler will fight against another are in the land.

⁷ This is what Jehovah of Hosts says about Edom: »Is there no longer any wisdom in Teman? Has wisdom disappeared from your people? Has their wisdom vanished? ⁸ »Turn and run, take cover in deep places inhabitants of Dedan. When I punish them, I will bring disaster on the descendants of Esau. ⁹ »If people come to pick your grapes, will they not leave a few grapes behind? If thieves come during the night, will they steal only until they have had enough? ¹⁰ »Yet, I will strip the descendants of Esau. I will find their hiding places. They will not be able to hide. Their children and relatives will be destroyed. None of their neighbors will say: ¹¹ »Abandon your orphans, and I will keep them alive. Your widows can trust me.« ¹² This is what Jehovah says: »If those who do not deserve to drink from the cup still drink from it, why should you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished. You must drink from it.« ¹³ »I take an oath on myself,« says Jehovah, »that Bozrah will become a pile of rubble. It will become something horrifying, ridiculed, ruined, and cursed. All its cities will lie in ruins permanently.« ¹⁴ I heard a message from Jehovah. A messenger was sent among the nations to say: »Assemble and attack Edom. Get ready for battle.« ¹⁵ »Edom, I will make you the smallest of nations and despised among humanity. ¹⁶ »You have frightened other people. Your arrogance has deceived you. You live on rocky cliffs and occupy the highest places in the hills. Even though you build your nest as high as an eagle, I will bring you down from there,« proclaims Jehovah. ¹⁷ Jehovah said: »The destruction that will come on Edom will be so terrible that everyone who passes by will be shocked and terrified. ¹⁸ »The same thing will happen to Edom that happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, when they and the nearby towns were destroyed. No one will ever live there again. I Jehovah have spoken. ¹⁹ »Like a lion coming out of the thick woods along the Jordan River up to the green pastureland, I will come and make the Edomites run away suddenly from their country. Then the leader I choose will rule the nation. Who can be compared to me? Who would dare challenge me? What ruler could oppose me?« ²⁰ Hear that which I have determined against the people of Edom, and to what I intend to do to the people of the city of Teman. Even their children will be dragged off, and everyone will be horrified. ²¹ When Edom falls, there will be such a noise that the entire earth will shake. The cries of alarm will be heard as far away as the Gulf of Aqaba. ²² The enemy will attack Bozrah like an eagle swooping down with outspread wings. On that day Edom's soldiers will be as frightened as a woman in labor.

²¹ Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz. The cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen. ²² The punishment of your evil doing is complete, O daughter of Zion; never again will he take you away as a prisoner. He has turned his attention to your error, O daughter of Edom. He has uncovered your sin.

¹² »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and avenged themselves upon them, ¹³ therefore the Lord Jehovah says: ‘I will also stretch out my hand (exert my power) against Edom and cut off man and beast from it. I will lay it waste! From Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword. ¹⁴ ‘I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel. Therefore, they will act in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. They will know my vengeance, declares the Lord Jehovah.«’

³ »Say this, ‘the Lord Jehovah says: »I am against you, Mount Seir! I will stretch out my hand (exert my power) against you and make you a desolation and a waste. ⁴ »‘»I will lay waste your cities and you will become desolated. Then you will know that I am Jehovah. ⁵ »‘»Because you have had everlasting enmity and have delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword (to die by warfare) at the time of their calamity, at the time of the punishment of the end.«’ ⁶ »‘Therefore as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah: I will give you over to bloodshed (death), and bloodshed (death) will pursue you. Since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you. ⁷ »‘I will make Mount Seir a waste and desolation. I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns. ⁸ »‘I will fill its mountains with those who have been killed. Those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and ravines. ⁹ »‘I will make you an everlasting desolation! Your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Jehovah!’ ¹⁰ »For the reason that you have said: ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,’ although Jehovah was there. ¹¹ ‘Therefore as I live,’ declares the Lord Jehovah, ‘I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy, what you showed because of your hatred against them. I will make myself known among them when I judge you. ¹² »‘Then you will know that I, Jehovah, have heard all your insults you have spoken against the mountains of Israel. You said: ‘They are laid desolate. They are given to us for food.’ ¹³ »‘You have spoken arrogantly against me and have continuously spoken against me. And I have heard it!’ ¹⁴ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘As all the earth rejoices, I will make you desolated. ¹⁵ »As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolated, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am Jehovah.’«

¹⁹ »Egypt will be desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness. This is because of the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

¹¹ Jehovah declared: »For three and four transgressions of Edom, I will not withdraw punishment. He pursued his brother with the sword. He showed no compassion but was driven with anger and eternal wrath. ¹² »I will send a fire upon Teman, and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.«

¹³ »The breaker (one who opens the breach) (one that breaks through) has gone ahead of them. They will pass through the gate and go out by it. Their king will lead them with Jehovah at the head of them.«

³ »And yet I hated Esau and his descendants. I devastated Esau's hill country and abandoned his inheritance to the desert jackals.« ⁴ Esau's descendants, the Edomites, say: »Our towns have been destroyed, but we will rebuild them.« Thus Jehovah (YHWH) will reply: »Let them rebuild. I will tear them down again. People will call them the evil country. They are the nation with whom Jehovah has a long lasting anger.

⁶ »You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Do not be troubled, for this must happen, but the end is not yet.

⁷ »When you hear of wars and rumors (reports) of wars do not be troubled. These things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.