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Obadiah 18-20
New Catholic Bible
Obadiah 18-20
New Catholic Bible
18 Then the house of Jacob will be a fire,
and the house of Joseph a flame.
The house of Esau will be stubble;
it will be set afire and consumed,
and no one of the house of Esau will survive,
for the Lord has spoken.
19 My people from the Negeb[a]
will occupy the mount of Esau,
and people from the lowlands
will occupy the foothills
of the land of the Philistines.
They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,
and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
20 The exiles of the Israelites
will possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath,[b]
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the towns of the Negeb.
Footnotes
- Obadiah 1:19 Negeb: the extreme south of Palestine. Foothills: the Shephelah or coastal plain. Gilead: across the Jordan.
- Obadiah 1:20 Zarephath: in Phoenicia. Sepharad: unidentified.