¹有關以東的預言俄巴底亞所見的異象。主耶和華指著以東這樣說：我們從耶和華那裡聽見了一個信息，有一位使者被派往列國去，說：“起來吧！我們起來與以東爭戰。”

¹The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.

²以東的刑罰看哪！我必使你在列國中成為弱小的，你必大受藐視。

²Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

³你心中的傲氣欺騙了你；你這住在巖石的隱密處，居所在高處的啊！你心裡說：“誰能把我拉下地呢？”

³The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

⁴你雖如鷹高飛，在星宿之間搭窩，我也必從那裡把你拉下來。這是耶和華的宣告。

⁴Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

⁵竊賊若來到你那裡，強盜若夜間來到，豈不會偷竊直到夠了呢？你將會怎樣被滅絕！摘葡萄的若來到你那裡，豈不只剩下幾粒葡萄嗎？

⁵“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?

⁶以掃要怎樣被搜索，他收藏的寶物被搜查出來。

⁶How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

⁷曾與你結盟的，都把你送到邊界；本來與你友好的，卻欺騙你，勝過你；與你同席的，在你腳下暗設網羅，你卻毫不曉得。

⁷All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”

⁸耶和華宣告說：到那日，我豈不從以東滅絕智慧人嗎？豈不從以掃山除掉聰明人嗎？

⁸“Won’t I in that day,” says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?

⁹提幔哪！你的勇士要驚惶，因此在以掃山上人人被殺戮剪除。

⁹Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

¹⁰懲罰以東的原因因你對兄弟雅各行強暴，你必受羞辱，永被剪除。

¹⁰For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

¹¹外地人劫掠雅各財物的日子，外族人進入他的城門，為耶路撒冷抽籤；那時你竟袖手旁觀，甚至好像他們中間的一分子！

¹¹In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.

¹²你兄弟遭遇禍患的日子，你不該看著不理；猶大人被滅的日子，你不該幸災樂禍；他們遭難的日子，你不該張口狂傲；

¹²But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

¹³我子民遭災的日子，你不該進入他們的城門；他們遭災的日子，你不該看著他們受苦；他們遭災的日子，你不該搶奪他們的財物。

¹³Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

¹⁴你不該站在岔路口，剪除他們中間逃脫的人；他們遭難的日子，你不該把他們生還的人交出來。

¹⁴Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

¹⁵耶和華的日子臨近萬國了，人必照你所行的向你施行，你的報應必歸到你的頭上。

¹⁵For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

¹⁶你們怎樣在我的聖山上喝過苦杯，萬國也必照樣不住地喝，他們要喝，並且要吞下去，他們就不再存在了。

¹⁶For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

¹⁷雅各家將來的復興但在錫安山上必有逃脫的人，那山必成為聖；雅各家必得回他們原有的產業。

¹⁷But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

¹⁸雅各家必成為火，約瑟家必成為火燄；以掃家卻像碎秸，被它們焚燒吞滅，以掃家再沒有生還的人了。因為耶和華已經說了。

¹⁸The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

¹⁹南地的人必佔有以掃山，低地的人必佔有非利士人之地；他們必佔有以法蓮的田野和撒瑪利亞的田野；便雅憫人必佔有基列。

¹⁹Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.

²⁰被擄到哈臘的以色列人，必佔有迦南人的地，直到撒勒法；被擄到西法拉的耶路撒冷的人，要佔有南地眾城。

²⁰The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.

²¹必有拯救者登錫安山，審判以掃山，國權就屬於耶和華了。

²¹Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.