Obadiah 1-6

Modern English Version

(We have heard a report from the Lord
    and a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying:
“Rise up! Let us rise up against it for battle!”):

² See, I will make you small among the nations;
    you will be greatly despised.
³ The pride of your heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rock,
    whose dwelling is high;
you say in your heart,
    “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
⁴ Though you ascend high like the eagle,
    and though you set your nest among the stars,
    I will bring you down from there,
    says the Lord.

⁵ If thieves came to you,
    if robbers by night—
how you have been destroyed!—
    would they not steal only what they want?
If grape gatherers come to you,
    would they not leave gleanings?
⁶ How the things of Esau have been ransacked!
    How his hidden treasures hunted out!