Obadiah 15–21

Edom Destroyed, Israel Restored

¹⁵“The day is near when I, the Lord,

will judge all godless nations!

As you have done to Israel,

so it will be done to you.

All your evil deeds

will fall back on your own heads.

¹⁶Just as you swallowed up my people

on my holy mountain,

so you and the surrounding nations

will swallow the punishment I pour out on you.

Yes, all you nations will drink and stagger

and disappear from history.

¹⁷“But Jerusalem will become a refuge for those who escape;

it will be a holy place.

And the people of Israel will come back

to reclaim their inheritance.

¹⁸The people of Israel will be a raging fire,

and Edom a field of dry stubble.

The descendants of Joseph will be a flame

roaring across the field, devouring everything.

There will be no survivors in Edom.

I, the Lord, have spoken!

¹⁹“Then my people living in the Negev

will occupy the mountains of Edom.

Those living in the foothills of Judah

will possess the Philistine plains

and take over the fields of Ephraim and Samaria.

And the people of Benjamin

will occupy the land of Gilead.

²⁰The exiles of Israel will return to their land

and occupy the Phoenician coast as far north as Zarephath.

The captives from Jerusalem exiled in the north

will return home and resettle the towns of the Negev.

²¹Those who have been rescued will go up to Mount Zion in Jerusalem

to rule over the mountains of Edom.

And the Lord himself will be king!”