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Obadiah 1:13-21 New International Version (NIV)

13. You should not march through the gates of my people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over them in their calamity in the day of their disaster, nor seize their wealth in the day of their disaster.

14. You should not wait at the crossroads to cut down their fugitives, nor hand over their survivors in the day of their trouble.

15. “The day of the Lord is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.

16. Just as you drank on my holy hill, so all the nations will drink continually; they will drink and drink and be as if they had never been.

17. But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and Jacob will possess his inheritance.

18. Jacob will be a fire and Joseph a flame; Esau will be stubble, and they will set him on fire and destroy him. There will be no survivors 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. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.

20. This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan will possess the land as far as Zarephath; the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the towns of the Negev.

21. Deliverers will go up on Mount Zion to govern the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will be the Lord’s.

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