This is
what the Sovereign LORD says about Edom – We have heard
a message from the LORD: An envoy
was sent to the nations
to say, ÒRise, and let us go against her for battleÓ – See I will
make you small among the nations; you will be utterly
despised. The pride of your heart
has deceived you, you who
dwell in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the
heights, you who say to yourself, ÒWho can bring me down to the
ground?Ó Though you soar like the
eagle and make your
nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,
declares the LORD. (Obadiah 1-4)