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.

¹¶ Ko te kite a Oparia. Ko te kupu tenei a te Ariki, a Ihowa, mo Eroma; Kua tae mai he korero i a Ihowa, kua oti ano he karere te unga ki nga tauiwi, hei mea, Whakatika, kia whakatika atu hoki tatou ki a ia ki te whawhai.

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

²Nana, kua oti koe te mea e ahau kia iti i roto i nga tauiwi: nui atu te whakahawea ki a koe.

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?’

³Kua oti koe te tinihanga e te whakapehapeha o tou ngakau, e koe e noho na i nga kapiti o te kamaka, kei runga na tona nohoanga; e mea na i roto i tona ngakau, Ko wai hei whakahoki iho i ahau ki raro ki te whenua?

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.

⁴Ahakoa i rite tou kakenga ki to te ekara, ahakoa i hanga e koe tou kohanga ki nga whetu, ka whakahokia iho koe e ahau i reira, e ai ta Ihowa.

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?

⁵Me i tae he kaitahae ki a koe, he kaipahua ranei i te po, taukiri e, tou ngaromanga! e kore ranei ratou e tahae, kia maha ra ano nga mea ma ratou? me i tae he kaiwhawhaki karepe ki a koe, e kore ranei etahi karepe e whakatoea e ratou?

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

⁶Taukiri e, te rapunga atu o nga mea a Ehau! te kimihanga o ana mea ngaro!

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.”

⁷Ko nga tangata katoa o tau kawenata, kua riro koe i a ratou, tae rawa ki te rohe: ko nga tangata i mau nei ta ratou rongo ki a koe, kua tinihanga ki a koe, a taea ana koe e ratou; ko te hunga i kai i tau taro kua takoto i a ratou he mahanga ki ra ro i a koe: kahore he matauranga i a ia.

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

⁸He teka ianei, e ai ta Ihowa, ka kore i ahau i taua ra nga tangata whakaaro nui i roto i Eroma, me te matauranga o te maunga o Ehau?

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

⁹A ka wehi ou marohirohi, e Temana, he mea e hatepea atu ai nga tangata katoa o te maunga o Ehau, tukituki rawa.

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

¹⁰¶ Ka taupokina koe e te whakama hei utu mo te mahi tutu ki tou teina, ki a Hakopa, ka hatepea atu ano koe a ake ake.

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.

¹¹I te ra i tu hangai mai ai koe, i te ra i whakaraua ai ona rawa e nga tautangata, i tapoko ai nga tangata iwi ke ki ona kuwaha, i kokiri nui ai mo Hiruharama, i rite rawa ano koe ki tetahi o ratou.

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.

¹²Otiia kaua koe e titiro ki te ra o tou teina, i te ra o tona aitua, kaua hoki koe e koa ki nga tama a Hura i te ra o to ratou whakangaromanga; kaua hoki e whakanuia tou mangai i te ra o te raru.

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.

¹³Kaua e tomo ki roto ki te kuwaha o taku iwi i te ra o to ratou aitua; ae ra, kaua koe e matakitaki ki to ratou matenga i te ra o to ratou aitua, kaua ano hoki koutou e pa ringaringa ki o ratou rawa i te ra o to ratou raru.

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.

¹⁴A kaua koe e tu ki te pekanga o te ara ki te hatepe i ona morehu e mawhiti; kaua hoki e tukua ona morehu i te ra o te raru.

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.

¹⁵Kua tata hoki te ra o Ihowa ki nga tauiwi katoa; ka rite ki tau i mea ai ka meatia ki a koe; ka hoki tau utu ki runga ki tou mahunga.

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.

¹⁶Ka rite hoki ki ta koutou inumanga i runga i toku maunga tapu; ka pena ano te inu a nga tauiwi katoa a ake nei, ake nei; ina, ka inu ratou, ka horomia ano e ratou, a me te mea i kore ratou.

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

¹⁷¶ Otiia tera ano nga mea ka mawhiti i Maunga Hiona, a ka tapu tera; a ka riro o ratou wahi i te whare o Hakopa.

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.

¹⁸A hei ahi te whare o Hakopa, hei mura ano te whare o Hohepa, hei kakau witi hoki te whare o Ehau: ka ngiha ratou i roto i a ratou, a pau ake, kahore hoki he morehu o te whare o Ehau: na Ihowa nei hoki te kupu.

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.

¹⁹Na ka riro te maunga o Ehau i te hunga o te tonga; me nga Pirihitini i te hunga o te mania; ka riro ano i a ratou nga mara a Eparaima me nga mara o Hamaria; mo Pineamine hoki a Kireara.

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.

²⁰Na, ko nga whakarau o tenei ope, o nga tama a Iharaira, ko era i roto i nga Kanaani, ka riro i a ratou tae noa ki Harepata; a, ko nga whakarau o Hiruharama, ko era i Teparara, ka riro i a ratou nga pa o te tonga.

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

²¹A ka tae ake he kaiwhakaora ki Maunga Hiona hei whakawa mo te maunga o Ehau; a ka riro i a Ihowa te kingitanga.