Obadiah 15–21

JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS

¹⁵For the day of the Lord^ag is near,

against all the nations.^ah

As you have done,^ai it will be done to you;

what you deserve will return on your own head.^aj

¹⁶As you have drunk on my holy mountain,^ak

so all the nations will drink continually.^a

They will drink and gulp down

and be as though they had never been.

¹⁷But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion,^b

and it will be holy;^c

the house of Jacob will dispossess^d

those who dispossessed them.^DE

¹⁸Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,^f

and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,

but the house of Esau will be stubble;

Jacob^E will set them on fire and consume Edom.^F

Therefore no survivor will remain^g

of the house of Esau,

for the Lord has spoken.

FUTURE BLESSING FOR ISRAEL

¹⁹People from the Negev will possess^h

the hill country of Esau;ⁱ

those from the Judean foothills will possess

the land of the Philistines.^j

They^G will possess

the territories of Ephraim and Samaria,^k

while Benjamin will possess Gilead.

²⁰The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah^H

and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath^l

as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

will possess the cities of the Negev.^m

²¹Saviors^I will ascend Mount Zionⁿ

to rule over the hill country of Esau,

and the kingdom will be the Lord’s.^o