Obadiah 1:17-21

¹⁷But not so on Mount Zion--there''s respite there! a safe and holy place! The family of Jacob will take back their possessions from those who took them from them.c

¹⁸That''s when the family of Jacob will catch fire, the family of Joseph become fierce flame, while the family of Esau will be straw. Esau will go up in flames, nothing left of Esau but a pile of ashes." GOD said it, and it is so. [JC]

¹⁹People from the south will take over the Esau mountains; people from the foothills will overrun the Philistines. They''ll take the farms of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will take Gilead.

²⁰Earlier, Israelite exiles will come back and take Canaanite land to the north at Zarephath. Jerusalem exiles from the far northwest in Sepharad will come back and take the cities in the south.

²¹The remnant of the saved in Mount Zion will go into the mountains of Esau And rule justly and fairly, a rule that honors GOD''s kingdom.