Obadiah 15–21

The Day of the Lord Is Near

¹⁵For ^wthe day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.

^xAs you have done, it shall be done to you;

your deeds shall return on your own head.

^16yFor as you have drunk on ^zmy holy mountain,

so all the nations shall drink continually;

they shall drink and swallow,

and shall be as though they had never been.

^17aBut in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,

and it shall be holy,

^band the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.

^18cThe house of Jacob shall be a fire,

and the house of Joseph a flame,

and the house of Esau ^dstubble;

they shall burn them and consume them,

^eand there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,

for the Lord has spoken.

The Kingdom of the Lord

¹⁹Those of ^fthe Negeb ^bshall possess ^gMount Esau,

and those of the Shephelah shall possess ^hthe land of the Philistines;

they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of ⁱSamaria,

and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

²⁰The exiles of this host of the people of Israel

shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as ^jZarephath,

and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

shall possess the cities of the Negeb.

^21kSaviors shall go up to Mount Zion

to rule ^gMount Esau,

and ^lthe kingdom shall be the Lord’s.