top Obadiah
Greek: Septuagint (LXX)
English: John Barach
Chapter 1
Edom Will Be Humbled
1 Ὅρασις Ἀβδίου. Τάδε λέγει κύριος ὁ θεὸς τῇ Ἰδουμαίᾳ Ἀκοὴν ἤκουσα παρὰ κυρίου, καὶ περιοχὴν εἰς τὰ ἔθνη ἐξαπέστειλεν Ἀνάστητε καὶ ἐξαναστῶμεν ἐπ' αὐτὴν εἰς πόλεμον. 1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God to Idumea: I have heard a report from the Lord, and He has sent a message [surrounding wall/summons] among the nations: "Arise, and let us rise up against her for war!"
2 ἰδοὺ ὀλιγοστὸν δέδωκά σὲ ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, ἠτιμωμένος σὺ εἶ σφόδρα. 3 ὑπερηφανία τῆς καρδίας σου ἐπῆρέν σὲ κατασκηνοῦντα ἐν ταῖς ὀπαῖς τῶν πετρῶν, ὑψῶν κατοικίαν αὐτοῦ λέγων ἐν καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ Τίς με κατάξει ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν; 4 ἐὰν μετεωρισθῇς ὡς ἀετὸς καὶ ἐὰν ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ἄστρων θῇς νοσσιάν σου, ἐκεῖθεν κατάξω σε, λέγει κύριος. 5 εἰ κλέπται εἰσῆλθον πρὸς σὲ ἢ λῃσταὶ νυκτός, ποῦ ἄν ἀπερρίφης; οὐκ ἄν ἔκλεψαν τὰ ἱκανὰ ἑαυτοῖς; καὶ εἰ τρυγηταὶ εἰσῆλθον πρὸς σέ, οὐκ ἄν ὑπελίποντο ἐπιφυλλίδα; 2 Behold, I have made you small among the nations; you are greatly dishonored. 3 The arrogance of your heart has lifted you up, you who dwell in the holes of the rocks, lifting up his habitation, saying in his heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?" 4 Even if you should soar high like an eagle, and even if you should set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down, says the Lord. 5 If thieves entered to you, or robbers by night, where would you have been cast away? Would they not have stolen only enough for themselves? And if grape-gatherers entered to you, would they not have left behind a gleaning?
6 πῶς ἐξηρευνήθη Ἡσαῦ καὶ κατελήμφθη αὐτοῦ τὰ κεκρυμμένα. 7 ἕως τῶν ὁρίων σου ἐξαπέστειλάν σὲ πάντες οἱ ἄνδρες τῆς διαθήκης σου, ἀντέστησάν σοί ἠδυνάσθησαν πρὸς σὲ ἄνδρες εἰρηνικοί σου, ἔθηκαν ἔνεδρα ὑποκάτω σου, οὐκ ἔστιν σύνεσις αὐτοῖς. 6 How Esau has been searched out, and his hidden things have been seized! 7 All the men of your covenant have sent you out even to your borders; your men of peace have stood against you and have prevailed against you; they have set an ambush beneath you; there is no understanding in them.
8 ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ, λέγει κύριος, ἀπολῶ σοφοὺς ἐκ τῆς Ἰδουμαίας καὶ σύνεσιν ἐξ ὄρους Ἡσαῦ· 9 καὶ πτοηθήσονται οἱ μαχηταί σου οἱ ἐκ Θαιμάν, ὅπως ἐξαρθῇ ἄνθρωπος ἐξ ὄρους Ἡσαῦ 10 διὰ τὴν σφαγὴν καὶ τὴν ἀσέβειαν τὴν εἰς τὸν ἀδελφόν σου Ἰακώβ, καὶ καλύψει σὲ αἰσχύνη καὶ ἐξαρθήσῃ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. 11 ἀφ' ἧς ἡμέρας ἀντέστης ἐξ ἐναντίας ἐν ἡμέρᾳ αἰχμαλωτευόντων ἀλλογενῶν δύναμιν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀλλότριοι εἰσῆλθον εἰς πύλας αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἔβαλον κλήρους, καὶ σὺ ἦς ὡς εἷς ἐξ αὐτῶν. 8 In that day, says the Lord, I will destroy the wise out of Idumea, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau. 9 And your warriors from Teman [Thaiman] shall be terrified, so that every man shall be removed from the mountain of Esau 10 because of the slaughter and the ungodliness committed against your brother Jacob; and shame shall cover you, and you shall be removed forever. 11 From the day you stood in opposition, on the day when foreigners were taking captive his power and strangers entered into his gates and cast lots over Jerusalem, you also were as one of them.
12 καὶ μὴ ἐπίδῃς ἡμέραν ἀδελφοῦ σου ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἀλλοτρίων καὶ μὴ ἐπιχαρῇς ἐπὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰούδα ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἀπωλείας αὐτῶν καὶ μὴ μεγαλορρημονήσῃς ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεως· 13 μηδὲ εἰσέλθῃς εἰς πύλας λαῶν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ πόνων αὐτῶν μηδὲ ἐπίδῃς καὶ σὺ τὴν συναγωγὴν αὐτῶν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ὀλέθρου αὐτῶν μηδὲ συνεπιθῇ ἐπὶ τὴν δύναμιν αὐτῶν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἀπωλείας αὐτῶν· 14 μηδὲ ἐπιστῇς ἐπὶ τὰς διεκβολὰς αὐτῶν τοῦ ἐξολεθρεῦσαι τοὺς ἀνασῳζομένους αὐτῶν μηδὲ συγκλείσῃς τοὺς φεύγοντας ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεως. 12 And you should not have looked upon the day of your brother in the day of strangers, and you should not have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction, and you should not have spoken boastfully in the day of affliction. 13 Nor should you have entered into the gates of the peoples in the day of their labors, nor should you have looked—even you—upon their gathering in the day of their ruin, nor should you have joined in the attack upon their power in the day of their destruction. 14 Nor should you have stood at the cross-passes to utterly destroy those of them who were escaping, nor should you have hemmed in their fugitives in the day of affliction.
The Day of the LORD and the Future
15 διότι ἐγγὺς ἡμέρα κυρίου ἐπὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη· ὃν τρόπον ἐποίησας, οὕτως ἔσται σοι· τὸ ἀνταπόδομά σου ἀνταποδοθήσεται εἰς κεφαλήν σου· 16 διότι ὃν τρόπον ἔπιες ἐπὶ τὸ ὄρος τὸ ἅγιόν μου, πίονται πάντα τὰ ἔθνη οἶνον πίονται καὶ καταβήσονται καὶ ἔσονται καθὼς οὐχ ὑπάρχοντες. 15 For the Day of the Lord is near upon all the nations; in the manner you have done, so it shall be to you; your recompense shall be returned upon your own head. 16 For in the manner you drank upon My holy mountain, all the nations shall drink wine; they shall drink and go down [sink], and they shall be as though they did not exist.
17 Ἐν δὲ τῷ ὄρει Σιὼν ἔσται ἡ σωτηρίᾳ, καὶ ἔσται ἅγιον· καὶ κατακληρονομήσουσιν ὁ οἶκος Ἰακὼβ τοὺς κατακληρονομήσαντας αὐτούς. 18 καὶ ἔσται ὁ οἶκος Ἰακὼβ πῦρ, ὁ δὲ οἶκος Ἰωσὴφ φλόξ, ὁ δὲ οἶκος Ἡσαῦ εἰς καλάμην, καὶ ἐκκαυθήσονται εἰς αὐτοὺς καὶ καταφάγονται αὐτούς, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται πυροφόρος ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ Ἡσαῦ, διότι κύριος ἐλάλησεν. 19 καὶ κατακληρονομήσουσιν οἱ ἐν Ναγὲβ τὸ ὄρος τὸ Ἡσαῦ καὶ οἱ ἐν τῇ Σεφηλὰ τοὺς ἀλλοφύλους καὶ κατακληρονομήσουσιν τὸ ὄρος Ἐφραὶμ καὶ τὸ πεδίον Σαμαρείας καὶ Βενιαμὶν καὶ τὴν Γαλααδῖτιν. 17 But on Mount Zion there shall be salvation, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall inherit those who inherited them. 18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, but the house of Esau shall be for stubble; and they shall be kindled among them and shall devour them, and there shall not be a grain-bearer [survivor] in the house of Esau, because the Lord has spoken. 19 And those in the Negev [Nageb] shall inherit the mountain of Esau, and those in the Shephelah [Sephela] shall inherit the foreigners; and they shall inherit the mountain of Ephraim and the plain of Samaria, and Benjamin, and Gilead [the Gileadite land].
20 καὶ τῆς μετοικεσίας ἡ ἀρχὴ αὕτη· τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἰσραὴλ γῆ τῶν Χαναναίων ἕως Σαρεπτῶν καὶ ἡ μετοικεσία Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἕως Ἐφραθᾶ. καὶ κληρονομήσουσιν τὰς πόλεις τοῦ Ναγέβ. 20 And this is the beginning of the deportation: for the sons of Israel, the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath [Sarepta]; and the deportation of Jerusalem as far as Ephrathah. And they shall inherit the cities of the Negev.
21 καὶ ἀναβήσονται ἄνδρες σεσῳσμένοι ἐξ ὄρους Σιὼν τοῦ ἐκδικῆσαι τὸ ὄρος Ἡσαῦ, καὶ ἔσται τῷ κυρίῳ ἡ βασιλεία. 21 And men who have been saved shall go up from Mount Zion to avenge the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.