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18 The people of Jacob will become a fire
    and the family of Joseph a flame.
They will ignite and consume the people of Esau as they execute divine punishment
    until only dry stubble remains.
No one from the people of Esau will survive the conflagration.

So declares the Eternal One.

19 Eternal One: The people from the southern desert[a] will take over Mount Esau,
        and those from the foothills[b] will flood into the Philistines’ coastal plain.
    They will possess the fertile lands of Ephraim and Samaria,
        and Benjamin’s people will inhabit Gilead.
20     The army of exiled sons and daughters of Israel will stream back home
        and live along the coast and possess the Canaanites as far as Zarephath.
    And the exiles of Jerusalem who live in Sepharad
        will settle down in the cities and villages of the South.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Verse 19 Hebrew, Negev
  2. Verse 19 Hebrew, Shephelah
  3. Verse 20 Hebrew, Negev

18 Jacob will be a fire
    and Joseph a flame;
Esau will be stubble,
    and they will set him on fire(A) and destroy(B) him.
There will be no survivors(C)
    from Esau.”
The Lord has spoken.

19 People from the Negev will occupy
    the mountains of Esau,
and people from the foothills will possess
    the land of the Philistines.(D)
They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,(E)
    and Benjamin(F) will possess Gilead.
20 This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan
    will possess the land as far as Zarephath;(G)
the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
    will possess the towns of the Negev.(H)

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