Obadiah 1; Psalms 82; Psalms 83

1 The vision of Obadiah. The LORD God proclaims concerning Edom: We have heard a message from the LORD— a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!"

2 Look now, I will make you of little importance among the nations; you will be totally despised.

3 Your proud heart has tricked you— you who live in the cracks of the rock, whose dwelling is high above. You who say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?"

4 Though you soar like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.

5 If thieves approach you, if robbers by night—how you've been devastated!— wouldn't they steal only what they wanted? If those who gather grapes came to you, wouldn't they leave some grapes?

6 How Esau has been looted, his treasures taken away!

7 All those who were your allies have driven you to the border. Those who were on your side tricked you and triumphed over you. They are setting your own bread as a trap under you, but you don't see it coming.

8 Won't I on that day, says the LORD, destroy the wise from Edom and understanding from Mount Esau?

9 Your warriors will be shattered, Teman, and everyone from Mount Esau will be eliminated.

10 Because of the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be destroyed forever.

11 You stood nearby, strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem; you too were like one of them.

12 But you should have taken no pleasure over your brother on the day of his misery; you shouldn't have rejoiced over the people of Judah on the day of their devastation; you shouldn't have bragged on their day of hardship.

13 You shouldn't have entered the gate of my people on the day of their defeat; you shouldn't have even looked on his suffering on the day of his disaster; you shouldn't have stolen his possessions on the day of his distress.

14 You shouldn't have waited on the roads to destroy his escapees; you shouldn't have handed over his survivors on the day of defeat.

15 The day of the LORD is near against all the nations. As you have done, so it will be done to you; your actions will make you suffer!

16 Just as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations around you drink; they will drink and swallow quickly, and they will be like they've never been before.

17 But on Mount Zion there will be those who escape, and it will be holy; and the house of Jacob will drive out those who drove them out.

18 The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau straw; they will burn them up completely, and there will be no one left of the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.

19 Those of the arid southern plain will possess Mount Esau, and those of the western foothills, the land of the Philistines; they will possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.

20 Those who remain of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and those left from Jerusalem and who are now living in Sepharad will possess the cities of the arid southern plain.

21 The deliverers will go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom will be the LORD's.

1 God takes his stand in the divine council; he gives judgment among the gods:

2 "How long will you judge unjustly by granting favor to the wicked? Selah

3 Give justice to the lowly and the orphan; maintain the right of the poor and the destitute!

4 Rescue the lowly and the needy. Deliver them from the power of the wicked!

5 They don't know; they don't understand; they wander around in the dark. All the earth's foundations shake.

6 I hereby declare, "You are gods, children of the Most High—all of you!

7 But you will die like mortals; you will fall down like any prince."

8 Rise up, God! Judge the earth because you hold all nations in your possession!

1 God, don't be silent! Don't be quiet or sit still, God,

2 because—look!—your enemies are growling; those who hate you are acting arrogantly.

3 They concoct crafty plans against your own people; they plot against the people you favor.

4 "Come on," they say, "let's wipe them out as a nation! Let the name Israel be remembered no more!"

5 They plot with a single-minded heart; they make a covenant against you.

6 They are the clans of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

7 Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia along with the citizens of Tyre.

8 Assyria too has joined them— they are the strong arm for Lot's children. Selah

9 Do to them what you did to Midian, to Sisera, and to Jabin at the Kishon River.

10 They were destroyed at Endor; they become fertilizer for the ground.

11 Make their officials like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna—

12 those who said, "Let's take God's pastures for ourselves."

13 My God, make them like tumbleweeds, like chaff blown by wind.

14 Just like a fire consumes a forest, just like flames set mountains ablaze,

15 pursue them with your storm, terrify them with your hurricane.

16 Cover their faces with shame, LORD, so that they might seek your name.

17 Let them be shamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace.

18 Let them know that you— your name is the LORD!— you alone are Most High over all the earth.