Obadiah 15-18

International Children’s Bible

¹⁵ “The Lord’s day of judging is coming soon
    to all the nations.
You did evil things to other people.
    Those same things will happen to you.
    They will come back upon your own head.
¹⁶ Because you joined the nations in robbing my Temple,
    you drank my anger.
So all the nations will drink my anger.
    They will be punished so much that they will disappear.
¹⁷ But on Mount Zion some will be left alive.
    The mountain will be a holy place.
The people of Jacob will take back their land.
    They will take it from those who took it from them.
¹⁸ The people of Jacob, the Israelites, will be like a fire.
    And the people of Joseph will be like a flame.
But the people of Esau, the Edomites, will be like dry stalks.
    The people of Jacob will set these stalks on fire.
They will burn up the Edomites.
    Then there will be no one left of the people of Esau.”
This will happen because the Lord has said it.