Devine Scripture

Obadiah 1:17

Obadiah chapter 1 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.16For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be as though they had not been.

v.17This passage

v.18And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall burn among them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau; for Jehovah hath spoken it.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 44:28

    And they that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.

  • Joel 3:19

    Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

  • Revelation 21:27

    and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

  • Zechariah 14:20

    In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLY UNTO JEHOVAH; and the pots in Jehovah’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

  • Isaiah 46:13

    I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

  • Isaiah 4:3

    And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem;