The Revised Fabulous Version

The Vision of a Slave of Yah (i.e. Obadiah)

1The Vision of Obadiah;
Thus said our lord Yahweh to Edom: we have heard a report from Yahweh and a messenger of the nations was sent,
Arise! Let us rise against her for battle.
2Here I have made you small among the nations;
You are greatly despised.
3The pride of your heart lifted you,
My Dweller in hiding places of rock, high [is] your inactivity,
Saying in his heart,
Who brought my down [to the] land?
4If you soar as an eagle,
And if between the start he sets your nest,
From there I shall bring you down—declares Yahweh.
5If thieves come to you, if vandals of night,
How silent will they be? Will they not rob you?
If grape harvesters come to you, will they not leave gleanings?
6How were they sought out, Esau, his hidden treasures ransacked.
7To the boarders they sent you, all the men of your covenant,
They deceived you, they overcame you, the men of your peace;
Your eaters set a boil under you,
There is no intelligence with him.
8In that day—declares Yahweh—
shall I not destroy the wise [men] of Edom,
and the intelligent [woman] from the mountain of Esau?
9May your warriors be shattered, Teman;
so that each will be cut off from the mountain of Esau by murder.
10Because of violence [to] your brother Ya’akov;
May shame cover you, and may you be cut off forever.
11On a day of your standing far away,
On a day foreigners carried off his potence;
And strangers entered his gate, and upon Yerushalaim they cast lots,
You too, [were] as one of them.
12You should not look on a day of your brother, on a day of his misfortune,
Nor should you not rejoice for the sons of Yuda on a day of their destruction;
Nor should you open your mouth on a day of distress.
13You should not enter my people’s gate, on a day of their disaster,
Nor should you look, even you, on his harm, on a day of his disaster;
Nor should you send out against his potence, on a day of his disaster.
14Nor should you stand on the crossroad, to cut off his path;
Nor should you close off a survivor on a day of distress.
15For near [is] the day of Yahweh, to all the nations;
That which you have done, will be done to you, your lots may return on your head.
16That which they have drunk on my holy mountain, may all the nations drink continually;
May they drink and may they slurp, and may they be as they were not.
17On Mount Siyon, you will be a fugitive, while he will be holy;
18And the house of Ya’akove will be fire, and the house of Yosef the sword, and the house of Esau stubble,
And they will burn on them and their eater, and there will be no survivor of the house of Esau,
For Yahweh has spoken.
19They will inherit the south with Mt. Easu, she will sink the philistines;
They will inherit the field of Efraim,
And the field of Shomron;
And Benyamin the Gil’ad.
20Then the exile of this wall of the sons of Yisra’el, which [are with] Ca’anites, [are] to Sarfath,
And the exiles of Yrushalaim, which [are] in Sfarad, will inherit the cities of the south.
21And victors will ascend Mt. Siyon,
To judge Mt. Esau;
and kingship will be Yahweh’s.

This is a little rough.

I feel like I need to revisit my translational goals, this is just a rather plain and literal translation.