Obadiah 15-21
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
15 For the day of the Lord is near against all the nations.
As you have done, it shall be done to you;
your deeds shall return on your own head.
16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
all the nations around you shall drink;
they shall drink and gulp down,[a]
and shall be as though they had never been.
Israel’s Final Triumph
17 But on Mount Zion there shall be those that escape,
and it shall be holy;
and the house of Jacob shall take possession of those who dispossessed them.
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
and there shall be no survivor of the house of Esau;
for the Lord has spoken.
19 Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau,
and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines;
they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria,
and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah[b]
shall possess[c] Phoenicia as far as Zarephath;
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
shall possess the towns of the Negeb.
21 Those who have been saved[d] shall go up to Mount Zion
to rule Mount Esau;
and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
Footnotes
- Obadiah 1:16 Meaning of Heb uncertain
- Obadiah 1:20 Cn: Heb in this army
- Obadiah 1:20 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
- Obadiah 1:21 Or Saviours
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