Obadiah 16-18
The Message
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.
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Obadiah 16-18
New International Version
16 Just as you drank(A) on my holy hill,(B)
so all the nations will drink(C) continually;
they will drink and drink
and be as if they had never been.(D)
17 But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;(E)
it will be holy,(F)
and Jacob will possess his inheritance.(G)
18 Jacob will be a fire
and Joseph a flame;
Esau will be stubble,
and they will set him on fire(H) and destroy(I) him.
There will be no survivors(J)
from Esau.”
The Lord has spoken.
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