Everyone who has a treaty with you(A)
will drive you to the border;
everyone at peace with you
will deceive and conquer you.
Those who eat your bread(B)
will set[a] a trap for you.
He will be unaware of it.(C)
In that day—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom(D)
and those who understand
from the hill country of Esau?
Teman,[b](E) your warriors(F) will be terrified
so that everyone from the hill country of Esau
will be destroyed by slaughter.(G)

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  1. 7 Some LXX mss, Sym, Tg, Vg; MT reads They will set your bread as
  2. 9 = a region or city in Edom

All your allies(A) will force you to the border;
    your friends will deceive and overpower you;
those who eat your bread(B) will set a trap for you,[a]
    but you will not detect it.

“In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “will I not destroy(C) the wise men of Edom,
    those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
Your warriors, Teman,(D) will be terrified,
    and everyone in Esau’s mountains
    will be cut down in the slaughter.

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.