Obadiah 20-21

Contemporary English Version

²⁰Those who return from captivity
will control Phoenicia
    as far as Zarephath.^[a]
Captives from Jerusalem
    who were taken to Sepharad^[b]
will capture the towns
    of the Southern Desert.
²¹Those the Lord has saved
will live on Mount Zion
    and rule over Edom.^[c]
Then the kingdom will belong
    to the Lord.

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Footnotes

20 Those who return … Zarephath: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
20 Sepharad: Possibly the city of Sardis, the capital of Lydia, a country north and west of Media. This would refer to those captives from Judah who had been taken beyond the kingdom of Babylonia.
21 Those the Lord … Edom: Or “Leaders on (from) Mount Zion will save the people and rule over Edom.”

Obadiah 20-21

New International Version

²⁰This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan
    will possess the land as far as Zarephath;^(A)
the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
    will possess the towns of the Negev.^(B)
²¹Deliverers^(C) will go up on^[a] Mount Zion
    to govern the mountains of Esau.
    And the kingdom will be the Lord’s.^(D)