Obadiah 15–21

God Will Judge the Nations

¹⁵“The day is near when I, the Lord,

will judge all nations.

Edom, what you have done

will be done to you.

You will get back what you have given.

¹⁶My people have drunk a bitter cup of punishment

on my sacred hill.^b

But all the surrounding nations will drink

a still more bitter cup of punishment;

they will drink it all and vanish away.

The Victory of Israel

¹⁷“But on Mount Zion some will escape,

and it will be a sacred place.

The people of Jacob will possess

the land that is theirs by right.

¹⁸The people of Jacob and of Joseph will be like fire;

they will destroy the people of Esau

as fire burns stubble.

No descendant of Esau will survive.

I, the Lord, have spoken.

¹⁹“People from southern Judah will occupy Edom;

those from the western foothills will capture Philistia;

Israelites will possess the territory of Ephraim and Samaria;

the people of Benjamin will take Gilead.

²⁰The army of exiles from northern Israel

will return and conquer Phoenicia as far north as Zarephath.

The exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sardis

will capture the towns of southern Judah.

²¹The victorious men of Jerusalem

will attack Edom and rule over it.

And the Lord himself will be King.”