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Obadiah 1:15-21 (NIRV)

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¹⁵ "The day of the Lord is near for all of the nations. Others will do to you what you have done to them. You will be paid back for what you have done. ¹⁶ You Edomites polluted my holy mountain of Zion by drinking and celebrating there. So all of the nations will drink from the cup of my anger. And they will keep on drinking from it. They will vanish. It will be as if they had never existed. ¹⁷ But on Mount Zion some of my people will be left alive. I will save them. Zion will be my holy mountain once again. And the people of Jacob will again receive the land as their own. ¹⁸ They will be like a fire. Joseph's people will be like a flame. The nation of Esau will be like straw. Jacob's people will set Edom on fire and burn it up. No one will be left alive among Esau's people." The Lord has spoken. ¹⁹ Israelites from the Negev Desert will take over Esau's mountains. Israelites from the western hills will possess Philistia. They'll take over the territories of Ephraim and Samaria. Israelites from the tribe of Benjamin will possess the land of Gilead. ²⁰ Some Israelites were forced to leave their homes. They'll come back to Canaan and possess it all the way to the town of Zarephath. Some people from Jerusalem were taken to the city of Sepharad. They'll return and possess the towns of the Negev Desert. ²¹ Leaders from Mount Zion will go and rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the Lord.

Definition(s):
Canaan (Keh-nan): merchant; trader; or that humbles and subdues
Canaan (Keh-na-an): merchant; trader; or that humbles and subdues
Edom (Ee-dom): red, earthy; of blood
Ephraim (Eff-ra-im): fruitful; increasing
Esau (Ee-saw): he that acts or finishes
Jerusalem (Je-roo-sa-lem): vision of peace
Zion (Zy-on): monument; raised up; sepulcher
Edomites (Ee-dom-ights):