Psalia.The prophets / About this book
Obadiah addresses Edom’s pride and its conduct when Jerusalem was in danger. Standing aside, rejoicing and taking advantage of another people’s disaster are brought into judgment. The short book closes by looking toward restoration and God’s rule.
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Ask who is speaking, who is being addressed, and what concern the passage names. Prophetic writing can move between warning, accusation, promise, and hope. Notice these changes rather than giving every paragraph the same tone.
Give images room to work within their setting. Read the surrounding section before applying a line to a present-day event, and keep a note of references or questions that need more study. An honest question is more useful than a hurried certainty.
Use the outline to see the larger movement before settling into a chapter. Each section opens at its first chapter in the reader.
1The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom. We have heard news from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.
2Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.
3The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
4Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says the LORD.
5“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?
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Where is the line between witnessing another person’s distress and becoming involved in the harm?
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