Obadiah 15–21

^15–18“God’s Judgment Day is near

for all the godless nations.

As you have done, it will be done to you.

What you did will boomerang back

and hit your own head.

Just as you partied on my holy mountain,

all the godless nations will drink God’s wrath.

They’ll drink and drink and drink—

they’ll drink themselves to death.

But not so on Mount Zion—there’s respite there!

a safe and holy place!

The family of Jacob will take back their possessions

from those who took them from them.

That’s when the family of Jacob will catch fire,

the family of Joseph become fierce flame,

while the family of Esau will be straw.

Esau will go up in flames,

nothing left of Esau but a pile of ashes.”

God said it, and it is so.

^19–21People from the south will take over the Esau mountains;

people from the foothills will overrun the Philistines.

They’ll take the farms of Ephraim and Samaria,

and Ben-jamin will take Gilead.

Earlier, Israelite exiles will come back

and take Canaanite land to the north at Zarephath.

Jerusalem exiles from the far northwest in Sepharad

will come back and take the cities in the south.

The remnant of the saved in Mount Zion

will go into the mountains of Esau

And rule justly and fairly,

a rule that honors God’s kingdom.