Book of Obadiah

Minor Prophets

Traditionally Obadiah

Traditionally dated c. 840 or 586 BC

The judgment of Edom for pride and cruelty.

Obadiah, the shortest book in the Old Testament, pronounces judgment on Edom for standing by and gloating during Jerusalem's destruction.

“The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’”

“This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom — We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, “Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!” —”

“For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.”

“Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.”

“But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will reclaim their possession.”