Obadiah 16-18

Expanded Bible

¹⁶ Because you drank in my ·Temple [^Lholy mountain],
    all the nations will drink ·on and on [continually].
They will drink and ·drink [^Lswallow]
    ·until they disappear [^Land be as though they were not].
¹⁷ But on Mount Zion ·some will escape the judgment [^Lthere will be escape],
    and it will be a holy place.
The ·people [^Lhouse] of Jacob will ·take back their land
    from those who ·took it from them [^Lpossess their possessions].
¹⁸ The ·people [^Lhouse] of Jacob will be like a fire
    and the ·people [^Lhouse] of Joseph [^Cthe Israelite tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh (Joseph’s sons, Jacob’s grandsons), representing the northern kingdom] like a flame.
But the ·people [^Lhouse] of Esau [^Cthe Edomites] will be like ·dry stalks [stubble].
    The ·people [^Lhouse] of Jacob will set them on fire and burn them up.
There will be no ·one left [survivors] of the ·people [^Lhouse] of Esau.”
    ·This will happen because [^LFor] the Lord has said it.