Obadiah 15–21

The Day of the Lord and the Future

¹⁵“For the ^aday of the Lord draws near on all the nations.

^bAs you have done, it will be done to you.

Your ^cdealings will return on your own head.

¹⁶“Because just as you ^adrank on ^bMy holy mountain,

All the nations ^cwill drink continually.

They will drink and ¹swallow

And become as if they had never existed.

¹⁷“But on Mount ^aZion there will be those who escape,

And it will be holy.

And the house of Jacob will ^bpossess their possessions.

¹⁸“Then the house of Jacob will be a ^afire

And the house of Joseph a flame;

But the house of Esau will be as stubble.

And they will set ¹them on fire and consume them,

So that there will be ^bno survivor of the house of Esau,”

For the Lord has spoken.

¹⁹Then those of the ¹Negev will ^apossess the mountain of Esau,

And those of the ²Shephelah the ^bPhilistine plain;

Also, ^cpossess the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria,

And Benjamin will possess Gilead.

²⁰And the exiles of this host of the sons of Israel,

Who are among the Canaanites as far as ^aZarephath,

And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

Will possess the ^bcities of the Negev.

²¹The ^adeliverers will ascend Mount Zion

To judge the mountain of Esau,

And the ^bkingdom will be the Lord’s.