outline of Obadiah

1.  God's Declaration of War on Edom (vv. 1-14)

1. Superscription; Call to the Nations (v. 1)
2. God's Resolve to Humiliate Proud Edom (vv. 2-4)
3. God's Resolve to Loot Prosperous Edom (vv. 5-7)
4. Edom's Vulnerability to God's Judgment (vv. 8, 9)
5. Edom's Cruel Indifference to Judah's Trouble (vv. 10-14)

2.  God's Promise of a New Moral Order (vv. 15-21)

1. Vengeance Against the Nations and Edom (vv. 15, 16)
2. Deliverance for Jerusalem (vv. 17, 18)
3. Land Possessed by the Lord's People (vv. 19-21)