Obadiah 1:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ But on Mount Zion [in Jerusalem] there shall be deliverance [for those who escape], and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess its [own former] possessions. [Ezek. 36; Joel 2:32.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ But on Mount Zion there will be those who escape, and it will be holy; and the house of Jacob will drive out those who drove them out.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And on mount Zion there will be salvation, and it will be holy. And the house of Jacob will possess those who had possessed them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And in mount Sion shall be salvation, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess those that possessed them.

Obadiah 1:17 Cross References

Psalm 69:35

For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, and his servants shall live there and possess it;

Isaiah 1:27

Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.

Isaiah 4:2

On that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel.

Isaiah 46:13

I bring near my deliverance; it is not far off, and my salvation will not tarry; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory.

Isaiah 60:21

Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever. They are the shoot that I planted, the work of my hands, so that I might be glorified.

Isaiah 65:9

I will bring forth descendants from Jacob and from Judah inheritors of my mountains; my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall settle there.

Jeremiah 31:23

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its towns when I restore their fortunes: “The Lord bless you, O abode of righteousness, O holy hill!”

Jeremiah 44:14

so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to settle in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah. Although they long to go back to live there, they shall not go back, except some fugitives.

Jeremiah 44:28

And those who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number, and all the remnant of Judah who have come to the land of Egypt to settle shall know whose words will stand, mine or theirs!

Jeremiah 46:28

As for you, have no fear, my servant Jacob, says the Lord, for I am with you. I will make an end of all the nations among which I have banished you, but I will not make an end of you! I will chastise you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

Ezekiel 36:12

I will lead people upon you—my people Israel—and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance. No longer shall you bereave them of children.

Ezekiel 7:16

If any survivors escape, they shall be found on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning over their iniquity.

Daniel 7:18

But the holy ones of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever—forever and ever.”

Joel 2:32

Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved, for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.

Joel 3:17

So you shall know that I, the Lord your God, dwell in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.

Joel 3:5

For you have taken my silver and my gold and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.

Amos 9:8

The eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth —except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the Lord.

Zechariah 8:12

For there shall be a sowing of peace; the vine shall yield its fruit, the ground shall give its produce, and the skies shall give their dew, and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

Zechariah 8:3

Thus says the Lord: I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts shall be called the holy mountain.

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.