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Obadiah 1:17

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But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

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Obadiah 1:17 in other translations

But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

Obadiah 1:17 · American Standard Version

Obadiah 1:17 in context

  1. 15For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
  2. 16For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.
  3. 17But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
  4. 18The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
  5. 19Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.