Obadiah 15-18
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Judgment of the Nations
15 For the Day of the Lord(A) is near,
against all the nations.(B)
As you have done,(C) so it will be done to you;
what you deserve will return on your own head.(D)
16 As you have drunk on My holy mountain,(E)
so all the nations will drink continually.(F)
They will drink and gulp down
and be as though they had never been.
17 But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion,(G)
and it will be holy;(H)
the house of Jacob will dispossess(I)
those who dispossessed them.[a](J)
18 Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,(K)
and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,
but the house of Esau will be stubble;
Jacob[b] will set them on fire and consume Edom.[c]
Therefore no survivor will remain(L)
of the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.
Footnotes
- Obadiah 1:17 DSS, LXX, Syr, Vg, Tg; MT reads Jacob will possess its inheritance
- Obadiah 1:18 Lit they
- Obadiah 1:18 Lit them
Obadiah 15-18
International Standard Version
The Lord’s Judgment and Israel’s Final Victory
15 “Indeed, the Day of the Lord approaches all nations.
As you have done it will be done to you—
your deeds will return to haunt you![a]
16 Just as you have drunk from the cup of my wrath[b] upon my holy mountain,
so will all nations drink from the cup of my wrath[c] perpetually.
They will drink, they will gulp it down,
and they will be as if they had never existed!
17 “But there will be a delivered remnant on Mount Zion.
There will be holiness,
and the house of Jacob will take back their possessions.
18 “The house of Jacob will be a fire,
and the house of Joseph a flame,
but the house of Esau will be kindling.
Then Jacob and Joseph[d] will burn and consume Esau,[e]
and no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.”
Indeed, the Lord has spoken it.
Footnotes
- Obadiah 1:15 Lit. return on your own head
- Obadiah 1:16 The Heb. lacks from the cup of my wrath
- Obadiah 1:16 The Heb. lacks from the cup of my wrath
- Obadiah 1:18 Lit. They
- Obadiah 1:18 Lit. them
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