Obadiah 19-21

The Voice

¹⁹Eternal One: The people from the southern desert^[a] will take over Mount Esau,
        and those from the foothills^[b] will flood into the Philistines’ coastal plain.
    They will possess the fertile lands of Ephraim and Samaria,
        and Benjamin’s people will inhabit Gilead.
²⁰    The army of exiled sons and daughters of Israel will stream back home
        and live along the coast and possess the Canaanites as far as Zarephath.
    And the exiles of Jerusalem who live in Sepharad
        will settle down in the cities and villages of the South.^[c]
²¹    These deliverers will go up to Mount Zion, My holy hill,
        and justly rule Mount Esau from there.
    And the kingdom they establish will belong to the Eternal One alone.

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Footnotes

Verse 19 Hebrew, Negev
Verse 19 Hebrew, Shephelah
Verse 20 Hebrew, Negev

Obadiah 19-21

New International Version

¹⁹People from the Negev will occupy
    the mountains of Esau,
and people from the foothills will possess
    the land of the Philistines.^(A)
They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,^(B)
    and Benjamin^(C) will possess Gilead.
²⁰This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan
    will possess the land as far as Zarephath;^(D)
the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
    will possess the towns of the Negev.^(E)
²¹Deliverers^(F) will go up on^[a] Mount Zion
    to govern the mountains of Esau.
    And the kingdom will be the Lord’s.^(G)