Obadiah 1:7 (LSB)

Passage

All the men who have a covenant with you Will send you forth to the border, And the men at peace with you Will deceive you and overpower you. They who eat your bread Will set an ambush for you. (There is no discernment in him.)

Nearby Context

Obadiah 1:5 “If thieves came to you, If robbers by night— Oh how you will be ruined!— Would they not thieve only until they had enough? If grape gatherers came to you, Would they not allow some gleanings to remain?

Obadiah 1:6 Oh how Esau will be searched out And his hidden treasures ransacked!

Obadiah 1:7 All the men who have a covenant with you Will send you forth to the border, And the men at peace with you Will deceive you and overpower you. They who eat your bread Will set an ambush for you. (There is no discernment in him.)

Obadiah 1:8 Will I not on that day,” declares Yahweh, “Cause the wise men to perish from Edom And discernment from the mountain of Esau?

Obadiah 1:9 Then your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman, So that each one may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "covenant", "send", "forth", "border", "peace", "deceive", "overpower", and "bread". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "covenant" and "send", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "Oh how Esau will be searched out..." into verse 8's "Will I not on that day declares...", so "covenant" and "send" belong inside that flow. In Obadiah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "covenant" and "send" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.