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Obadiah 1:6-19 Gods prophecy against Edom being Esau
In Genesis 36:8 Esau is equated with Edom as 
dwelling in Mt. Seir; and he is described as the father of Edom (36:9, Hebrew).
The word Edom means; “red,” may have been derived from the greedy act of Esau, where he sold his birthright for a bowl of red stew.
The Coming Judgment on Edom
1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom (We have heard a report from the Lord, And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle”):
2 “Behold, I will make you small among the nations; You shall be greatly despised.
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, You who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Whose habitation is high; You who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
4 Though you ascend as high as the eagle, And though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down,” says the Lord.
5 “If thieves had come to you, If robbers by night— Oh, how you will be cut off!— Would they not have stolen till they had enough? If grape-gatherers had come to you, Would they not have left some gleanings?
6 “Oh, how Esau shall be searched out! How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!
7 All the men in your confederacy Shall force you to the border; The men at peace with you Shall deceive you and prevail against you.
Those who eat your bread shall lay a trap[a] for you. No one is aware of it.
8 “Will I not in that day,” says the Lord, “Even destroy the wise men from Edom,
And understanding from the mountains of Esau?
9 Then your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed,
To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau May be cut off by slaughter. Edom Mistreated His Brother
10 “For violence against your brother Jacob, Shame shall cover you, And you shall be cut off forever.
Edom -Rome destroys the second Jewish temple:
11 In the day that you stood on the other side—In the day that strangers carried captive his forces, When foreigners entered his gates And cast lots for Jerusalem—Even you were as one of them.
12 “But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother
In the day of his captivity; Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah In the day of their destruction; Nor should you have spoken proudly In the day of distress.
13 You should not have entered the gate of My people In the day of their calamity (at the destruction of the second temple)
Indeed, you should not have gazed on their affliction
In the day of their calamity, Nor laid hands on their substance
In the day of their calamity.
14 You should not have stood at the crossroads; To cut off those among them who escaped; Nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained
In the day of distress.
15 “For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near;
As you have done, it shall be done to you; Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.
16 For as you drank on My holy mountain, So shall all the nations drink continually; Yes, they shall drink, and swallow, And they shall be as though they had never been.
Israel’s Final Triumph 17 “But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance,
And there shall be holiness;
The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame;
But the house of Esau shall be stubble;
They shall kindle them and devour them, And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,”For the Lord has spoken.
19 The South shall possess the mountains of Esau, And the Lowland shall possess Philistia.They shall possess the fields of Ephraim And the fields of Samaria. Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 The exiles of this host of the people of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
21 Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.