Obadiah

Obadiah 1
  1. Yo, Obadiah had this vision straight from God about Edom. Check it: The Lord sent a messenger to rally all the nations, telling them to gear up and hit Edom together.
  2. Hey, listen in! I made you smaller compared to other nations, and they straight up disrespect you.
  3. Your pride has totally fooled you, chilling in your fancy mountain pad, thinking you’re untouchable. Who do you think you are, saying no one can touch you?
  4. Even if you soar high like an eagle and set up your nest among the stars, I’m still gonna bring you down, says the LORD.
  5. If some guys slid in on you like thieves in the night, they’d straight up swipe all your stuff, no cap. And if grape-pickers showed up, you know they’d snatch all the juicy grapes, leaving nada!
  6. They’re really spilling all of Esau’s secrets, fam! How do they even uncover all his hidden stuff? That’s some serious detective skills right there!
  7. Your crew has brought you to the edge: your former homies have turned on you and got the upper hand; your day-ones have straight up betrayed you. Nobody’s got any sense in this mess.
  8. When that day comes, God’s gonna wipe out all the wise guys in Edom and throw understanding out the window in the mountains of Esau.
  9. And your powerful squad, Teman, will be shook, so that everyone in Esau’s crew might take a major L.
  10. Because you did your brother Jacob dirty with violence, shame’s gonna hit you hard and you’ll be cut off for good.
  11. Remember that time when you were kickin’ back on the other side, and those outsiders raided his crew, and strangers were takin’ over his turf, even deciding by dice who gets Jerusalem? You were right there with them, like you were one of the crew.
  12. But seriously, you shouldn’t have dissed your bro when he was down. And you definitely shouldn’t have been hype when Judah was strugglin’. No need to flex when they were in distress. That stuff ain’t cool. #NotCoolBro #EmpathyIsKey
  13. It was totally not cool of you to invade my people’s space when they were going through their worst; like seriously, you should’ve looked the other way and not messed with their stuff when things were rough. Can’t believe you pulled that, man.
  14. Hey, you shouldn’t have camped out on the crossroads, trying to block the ones who got away. And you definitely shouldn’t have handed over those who were still around during their tough times. #NotCool
  15. The LORD is gearing up to judge all the nations. Whatever you’ve done is coming back to you, and the consequences will hit you square in the face.
  16. Just like you’ve partied it up on my holy mountain, all the other nations are gonna have a wild time too. They’ll be chugging it down, sippin’ it up, and then poof, gone like they were never there. sips
  17. But on Mount Zion, it’s gonna be all about ultimate freedom and sacred vibes. And the house of Jacob? They’re gonna own it all, straight up.
  18. The fam of Jacob gonna be lit, Joseph’s crew gonna be fire, but Esau’s fam? They’ll be like dry grass, roasted and burned up. They’ll get wiped out and nothin’ left for ’em, ’cause that’s what the LORD said.
  19. Down south, they’ll take over Esau’s mountain, and in the plains, they’ll conquer the Philistines. They’ll snag Ephraim’s and Samaria’s lands, and Benjamin will roll deep in Gilead.
  20. So, the children of Israel will claim Canaanite territory up to Zarephath. And those Jerusalem peeps exiled in Sepharad? They’ll take charge of the southern cities.
  21. There’ll be some epic heroes rising up on Mount Zion to lay down the law on Esau’s turf. And the kingdom? Totally belongs to the LORD.