1This is a message that Yahweh our God gave to me, Obadiah, about the Edom people-group.
2And Yahweh says this to the people of Edom:
3Your capital city is high in the rocky cliffs,
4And I tell you that even if you had wings and could fly higher than eagles fly,
5When thieves break into someone’s house during the night,
6Everything that is valuable will be taken away.
7All ◄your allies/nations who promised to help you► will turn against you,
8I, Yahweh, declare that at the time that I destroy Edom,
9The soldiers from Teman town will become terrified;
10You acted cruel in a cruel way toward your relatives who are descendants of Jacob, the twin brother of your ancestor Esau.
11Foreigners entered the gates of Jerusalem
12You should not have ◄gloated/been happy► about the disaster that the Israelis were experiencing.
13They are my people,
14You should not have stood at crossroads
15“There will soon be the time when I, Yahweh, will judge and punish all the nations.
16My people in Jerusalem have been punished
17But some people in Jerusalem will escape,
18The descendants [MTY] of Jacob and his son Joseph will be like [MET] a fire,
19The Israeli people who live in the southern desert are the ones who will capture Edom.
20Those who were ◄exiled in/forced to go to► Babylon will return to their land
21The army of Jerusalem will attack Edom and conquer it,