¹有关以东的预言俄巴底亚所见的异象。主耶和华指着以东这样说：我们从耶和华那里听见了一个信息，有一位使者被派往列国去，说：“起来吧！我们起来与以东争战。”

¹Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Edom, A report we have heard from Jehovah, And an ambassador among nations was sent, `Rise, yea, let us rise against her for battle.`

²以东的刑罚看哪！我必使你在列国中成为弱小的，你必大受藐视。

²Lo, little I have made thee among nations, Despised [art] thou exceedingly.

³你心中的傲气欺骗了你；你这住在岩石的隐密处，居所在高处的啊！你心里说：“谁能把我拉下地呢？”

³The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, O dweller in clifts of a rock, (A high place [is] his habitation, He is saying in his heart, `Who doth bring me down [to] earth?`)

⁴你虽如鹰高飞，在星宿之间搭窝，我也必从那里把你拉下来。这是耶和华的宣告。

⁴If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁵窃贼若来到你那里，强盗若夜间来到，岂不会偷窃直到够了呢？你将会怎样被灭绝！摘葡萄的若来到你那里，岂不只剩下几粒葡萄吗？

⁵If thieves have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings?

⁶以扫要怎样被搜索，他收藏的宝物被搜查出来。

⁶How hath Esau been searched out! Flowed out have his hidden things,

⁷曾与你结盟的，都把你送到边界；本来与你友好的，却欺骗你，胜过你；与你同席的，在你脚下暗设网罗，你却毫不晓得。

⁷Unto the border sent thee have all thine allies, Forgotten thee, prevailed over thee, have thy friends, Thy bread they make a snare under thee, There is no understanding in him!

⁸耶和华宣告说：到那日，我岂不从以东灭绝智慧人吗？岂不从以扫山除掉聪明人吗？

⁸Is it not in that day — an affirmation of Jehovah, That I have destroyed the wise out of Edom, And understanding out of the mount of Esau?

⁹提幔哪！你的勇士要惊惶，因此在以扫山上人人被杀戮剪除。

⁹And broken down have been thy mighty ones, O Teman, So that every one of the mount of Esau is cut off.

¹⁰惩罚以东的原因因你对兄弟雅各行强暴，你必受羞辱，永被剪除。

¹⁰For slaughter, for violence [to] thy brother Jacob, Cover thee doth shame, And thou hast been cut off — to the age.

¹¹外地人劫掠雅各财物的日子，外族人进入他的城门，为耶路撒冷抽签；那时你竟袖手旁观，甚至好像他们中间的一分子！

¹¹In the day of thy standing over-against, In the day of strangers taking captive his force, And foreigners have entered his gates, And for Jerusalem have cast a lot, Even thou [art] as one of them!

¹²你兄弟遭遇祸患的日子，你不该看着不理；犹大人被灭的日子，你不该幸灾乐祸；他们遭难的日子，你不该张口狂傲；

¹²And — thou dost not look on the day of thy brother, On the day of his alienation, Nor dost thou rejoice over sons of Judah, In the day of their destruction, Nor make great thy mouth in a day of distress.

¹³我子民遭灾的日子，你不该进入他们的城门；他们遭灾的日子，你不该看着他们受苦；他们遭灾的日子，你不该抢夺他们的财物。

¹³Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, Nor look, even thou, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, Nor send forth against its force in a day of its calamity,

¹⁴你不该站在岔路口，剪除他们中间逃脱的人；他们遭难的日子，你不该把他们生还的人交出来。

¹⁴Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, Nor deliver up its remnant in a day of distress.

¹⁵耶和华的日子临近万国了，人必照你所行的向你施行，你的报应必归到你的头上。

¹⁵For near [is] the day of Jehovah, on all the nations, As thou hast done, it is done to thee, Thy deed doth turn back on thine own head.

¹⁶你们怎样在我的圣山上喝过苦杯，万国也必照样不住地喝，他们要喝，并且要吞下去，他们就不再存在了。

¹⁶For — as ye have drunk on My holy mount, Drink do all the nations continually, And they have drunk and have swallowed, And they have been as they have not been.

¹⁷雅各家将来的复兴但在锡安山上必有逃脱的人，那山必成为圣；雅各家必得回他们原有的产业。

¹⁷And in mount Zion there is an escape, And it hath been holy, And the house of Jacob have possessed their possessions.

¹⁸雅各家必成为火，约瑟家必成为火焰；以扫家却像碎秸，被它们焚烧吞灭，以扫家再没有生还的人了。因为耶和华已经说了。

¹⁸And the house of Jacob hath been a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame, And the house of Esau for stubble, And they have burned among them, And they have consumed them, And there is not a remnant to the house of Esau, For Jehovah hath spoken.

¹⁹南地的人必占有以扫山，低地的人必占有非利士人之地；他们必占有以法莲的田野和撒玛利亚的田野；便雅悯人必占有基列。

¹⁹And they have possessed the south with the mount of Esau, And the low country with the Philistines, And they have possessed the field of Ephraim, And the field of Samaria, And Benjamin with Gilead.

²⁰被掳到哈腊的以色列人，必占有迦南人的地，直到撒勒法；被掳到西法拉的耶路撒冷的人，要占有南地众城。

²⁰And the removed of this force of the sons of Israel, That [is with] the Canaanites unto Zarephat, And the removed of Jerusalem that [is] with the Sepharad, Possess the cities of the south.

²¹必有拯救者登锡安山，审判以扫山，国权就属于耶和华了。

²¹And gone up have saviours on mount Zion, To judge the mount of Esau, And the kingdom hath been to Jehovah!`