Obadiah 15–21

Judgment of the Nations

¹⁵For the Day of the Lord ^qis near,

against all the nations. ^r

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

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

¹⁶As you have drunk on My holy mountain, ^u

so all the nations will drink continually. ^v

They will drink and gulp down

and be as though they had never been.

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

and it will be holy; ^x

the house of Jacob will dispossess ^y

those who dispossessed them. ^za

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

and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,

but the house of Esau will be stubble;

Jacob ^cwill set them on fire and consume Edom. ^d

Therefore no survivor will remain ^e

of the house of Esau,

for the Lord has spoken.

Future Blessing for Israel

¹⁹People from the Negev will possess ^f

the hill country of Esau; ^g

those from the Judean foothills will possess

the land of the Philistines. ^h

They ⁱwill possess

the territories of Ephraim and Samaria, ^j

while Benjamin will possess Gilead.

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

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 ⁿwill ascend Mount Zion ^o

to rule over the hill country of Esau,

but the kingdom will be the Lord’s. ^p