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Obadiah 1:16-21 Modern English Version (MEV)

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

17. But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance,and it shall be holy;and the house of Jacob shall possessthose who dispossessed them.

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

19. Those of the Negev shall possessMount Esau,and those of the Shephelah the landof the Philistines.They shall possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria,and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

20. The exiles of this army of the sons of Israel,shall inherit the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharadshall inherit the cities of the Negev.

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

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