Obadiah 15-18
New Living Translation
Edom Destroyed, Israel Restored
15 “The day is near when I, the Lord,
will judge all godless nations!
As you have done to Israel,
so it will be done to you.
All your evil deeds
will fall back on your own heads.
16 Just as you swallowed up my people
on my holy mountain,
so you and the surrounding nations
will swallow the punishment I pour out on you.
Yes, all you nations will drink and stagger
and disappear from history.
17 “But Jerusalem[a] will become a refuge for those who escape;
it will be a holy place.
And the people of Israel[b] will come back
to reclaim their inheritance.
18 The people of Israel will be a raging fire,
and Edom a field of dry stubble.
The descendants of Joseph will be a flame
roaring across the field, devouring everything.
There will be no survivors in Edom.
I, the Lord, have spoken!
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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