Proud Edom Will Be Brought Low The vision of Obadi′ah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
The vision of Obdias. Thus saith the Lord God to Idumea; I have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent forth a message to the nations.
Ⲑⲙⲉⲧϭⲁⲥⲓϩⲏⲧ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲡⲉⲕϩⲏⲧ ⲁⲥϭⲁⲥⲕ ⲉⲕϣⲱⲡ ϧⲉⲛ ⲛⲓⲫⲱϫⲓ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲛⲓⲡⲉⲧⲣⲁ ⲉϥϭⲓⲥⲓ ⲙ̀ⲡⲉϥⲙⲁⲛ̀ϣⲱⲡⲓ ⲉϥϫⲱ ⲙ̀ⲙⲟⲥ ϧⲉⲛ ⲡⲉϥϩⲏⲧ ⲛⲓⲙ ⲉⲑⲛⲁϣⲣⲁϧⲧ ϩⲓϫⲉⲛ ⲡⲕⲁϩⲓ The pride of thine heart has elated thee, dwelling as thou dost in the holes of the rocks, as one that exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?
English (Standard • WEB)
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
Behold, I have made thee small among the Gentiles: thou art greatly dishonoured.
Pillage and Slaughter Will Repay Edom’s Cruelty If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
If thieves came in to thee, or robbers by night, where wouldest thou have been cast away? would they not have stolen just enough for themselves? and if grape-gatherers went in to thee, would they not leave a gleaning?
All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
They sent thee to thy coasts: all the men of thy covenant have withstood thee; thine allies have prevailed against thee, they have set snares under thee: they have no understanding.
On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
From the day that thou stoodest in opposition to him, in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them.
But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of strangers; nor shouldest thou have rejoiced against the children of Juda in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have boasted in the day of their affliction.
You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
Neither shouldest thou have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet shouldest thou have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor shouldest thou have attacked their host in the day of their perishing.
You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
Neither shouldest thou have stood at the opening of their passages, to destroy utterly those of them that were escaping; neither shouldest thou have shut up his fugitives in the day of affliction.
For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
For the day of the Lord is near upon all the Gentiles: as thou have done, so shall it be done to thee: thy recompense shall be returned on thine own head.
For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
For as thou hast drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not.
Israel’s Final Triumph But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
But on mount Sion there shall be deliverance, and there shall be a sanctuary; and the house of Jacob shall take for an inheritance those that took them for an inheritance.
The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau shall be for stubble; and Israel shall flame forth against them, and shall devour them, and there shall not be a corn-field left to the house of Esau; because the Lord has spoken.
Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephe′lah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of E′phraim and the land of Samar′ia and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And they that dwell in the south shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they in the plain the Philistines: and they shall inherit the mount of Ephraim, and the plain of Samaria, and Benjamin, and the land of Galaad.
The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zar′ephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sephar′ad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And this shall be the domain of the captivity of the children of Israel, the land of the Chananites as far as Sarepta; and the captives of Jerusalem shall inherit as far as Ephratha; they shall inherit the cities of the south.