Obadiah 15–21

¹⁵“The day of the Lord is near^d

for all nations.

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

your deeds^e will return upon your own head.

¹⁶Just as you drank^f on my holy hill,^g

so all the nations will drink^h continually;

they will drink and drink

and be as if they had never been.ⁱ

¹⁷But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;^j

it will be holy,^k

and Jacob will possess his inheritance.^l

¹⁸Jacob will be a fire

and Joseph a flame;

Esau will be stubble,

and they will set him on fire^m and destroyⁿ him.

There will be no survivors^o

from Esau.”

The Lord has spoken.

¹⁹People from the Negev will occupy

the mountains of Esau,

and people from the foothills will possess

the land of the Philistines.^p

They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,^q

and Benjamin^r will possess Gilead.

²⁰This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan

will possess the land as far as Zarephath;^s

the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

will possess the towns of the Negev.^t

²¹Deliverers^u will go up on^c Mount Zion

to govern the mountains of Esau.

And the kingdom will be the Lord’s.^v