Obadiah 10–21
10 “For nviolence against your brother Jacob,
Shame shall cover you,
And oyou shall be cut off forever.
11 In the day that you pstood on the other side—
In the day that strangers carried captive his forces,
When foreigners entered his gates
And qcast lots for Jerusalem—
Even you were as one of them.
12 “But you should not have rgazed 3on the day of your brother
4In the day of his captivity;
Nor should you have srejoiced over the children of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Nor should you have spoken proudly
In the day of distress.
13 You should not have entered the gate of My people
In the day of their calamity.
Indeed, you should not have 5gazed on their affliction
In the day of their calamity,
Nor laid hands on their substance
In the day of their calamity.
14 You should not have stood at the crossroads
To cut off those among them who escaped;
Nor should you have 6delivered up those among them who remained
In the day of distress.
15 “For tthe day of the Lord upon all the nations is near;
uAs you have done, it shall be done to you;
Your 7reprisal shall return upon your own head.
16 vFor as you drank on My holy mountain,
So shall all the nations drink continually;
Yes, they shall drink, and swallow,
And they shall be as though they had never been.
17 “But on Mount Zion there wshall be 8deliverance,
And there shall be holiness;
The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
And the house of Joseph xa flame;
But the house of Esau shall be stubble;
They shall kindle them and devour them,
And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,”
For the Lord has spoken.
19 The 9South yshall possess the mountains of Esau,
zAnd the Lowland shall possess Philistia.
They shall possess the fields of Ephraim
And the fields of Samaria.
Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel
Shall possess the land of the Canaanites
As afar as Zarephath.
The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
bShall possess the cities of the 1South.
21 Then csaviors 2shall come to Mount Zion
To judge the mountains of Esau,
And the dkingdom shall be the Lord’s.