Add parallel Print Page Options

16 For just as you Edomites[a] have drunk on my holy mountain, so also all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they will drink and guzzle it down, and it will be as though the Edomites never existed.

17 But on Mount Zion, there will be some who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will recapture its territory. 18 The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, but the house of Esau will be stubble. The Israelites[b] set them on fire and consume them. There will not be any survivors for the house of Esau.

Yes, the Lord has spoken.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:16 The antecedents of the Hebrew pronouns you and they in this verse are uncertain. The translation twice supplies Edomites as the subjects.
  2. Obadiah 1:18 The subject the Israelites is supplied for clarity. The Hebrew text reads they.