English Standard Version

Obadiah 1:13-21 English Standard Version (ESV)

13. Do not enter the gate of my peoplein the day of their calamity; do not gloat over his disasterin the day of his calamity; do not loot his wealthin the day of his calamity.

14. Do not stand at the crossroadsto cut off his fugitives;do not hand over his survivorsin the day of distress.

15. For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you;your deeds shall return on your own head.

16. For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,so all the nations shall drink continually;they shall drink and swallow,and shall be as though they had never been.

17. But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.

18. The house of Jacob shall be a fire,and the house of Joseph a flame,and the house of Esau stubble;they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,for the Lord has spoken.

19. Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau,and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines;they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria,and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

20. The exiles of this host of the people of Israelshall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharadshall possess the cities of the Negeb.

21. Saviors shall go up to Mount Zionto rule Mount Esau,and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.