Obadiah announces judgment on Edom
Obadiah condemned Edom for standing aloof, rejoicing, plundering, and cutting down fugitives when strangers entered Jerusalem. He announced that Edom's deeds would return upon its own head, while deliverance would come on Mount Zion and the kingdom would belong to the LORD (Obadiah 1:10-21).
The book does not identify the attack by date. Ussher associates the prophecy with Jerusalem's destruction in 586 BC; an early-date reading associates it with Jehoram's reign.
1This 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!”— 2“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised. 3The 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?’
