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15 For the day of the Lord is near against all the nations.
As you have done, it shall be done to you;
    your deeds shall return on your own head.
16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
    all the nations around you shall drink;
they shall drink and gulp down,[a]
    and shall be as though they had never been.

Israel’s Final Triumph

17 But on Mount Zion there shall be those that escape,
    and it shall be holy;
and the house of Jacob shall take possession of those who dispossessed them.

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

15 “The day of the Lord is near(A)
    for all nations.
As you have done, it will be done to you;
    your deeds(B) will return upon your own head.
16 Just as you drank(C) on my holy hill,(D)
    so all the nations will drink(E) continually;
they will drink and drink
    and be as if they had never been.(F)
17 But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;(G)
    it will be holy,(H)
    and Jacob will possess his inheritance.(I)

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