Tuesday, January 04, 2011

I love these verses:

Obadiah:
15 “The day is near when I, the Lord,
      will judge all godless nations!
   As you have done to Israel,
      so it will be done to you.
   All your evil deeds
      will fall back on your own heads.
 16 Just as you swallowed up my people
      on my holy mountain,
   so you and the surrounding nations
      will swallow the punishment I pour out on you.
   Yes, all you nations will drink and stagger
      and disappear from history.
 17 “But Jerusalem will become a refuge for those who escape;
      it will be a holy place.
   And the people of Israel will come back
      to reclaim their inheritance.
 18 The people of Israel will be a raging fire,
      and Edom a field of dry stubble.
   The descendants of Joseph will be a flame
      roaring across the field, devouring everything.
   There will be no survivors in Edom.
      I, the Lord, have spoken!
 19 “Then my people living in the Negev
      will occupy the mountains of Edom.
   Those living in the foothills of Judah
      will possess the Philistine plains
      and take over the fields of Ephraim and Samaria.
   And the people of Benjamin
      will occupy the land of Gilead.
 20 The exiles of Israel will return to their land
      and occupy the Phoenician coast as far north as Zarephath.
   The captives from Jerusalem exiled in the north
      will return home and resettle the towns of the Negev.
 21 Those who have been rescued will go up to Mount Zion in Jerusalem
      to rule over the mountains of Edom.
   And the Lord himself will be king!”

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