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Obadiah 1:18

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph, a burning flame, but the house of Esau will be stubble; Jacob  will set them on fire and consume Edom. Therefore no survivor will remain of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.

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On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a brazier in a woodpile,  like a flaming torch among sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and the left, while Jerusalem continues to be inhabited on its site, in Jerusalem.


Israel’s Light will become a fire, and its Holy One, a flame. In one day it will burn and consume Assyria’s thorns and thistles.


Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among animals of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples  and tears  as it passes through, and there is no one to rescue them.


tell them, “This is what the Lord God says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and put them together with the stick of Judah. I will make them into a single stick so that they become one in my hand.”


Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will become like something rotten and their blossoms will blow away like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the  Lord of Armies, and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.


If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver,  costly stones,  wood, hay, or straw,


For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry.


As you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp down and be as though they had never been.


They drink wine by the bowlful and anoint themselves with the finest oils but do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.


Hate evil and love good; establish justice at the city gate. Perhaps the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.


They bound on the tops of the mountains. Their sound is like the sound of chariots, like the sound of fiery flames consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for war.


‘Son of man, take a single stick and write on it:  Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him. Then take another stick and write on it: Belonging to Joseph #– #the stick of Ephraim #– #and all the house of Israel associated with him.


Look, they are like stubble; fire burns them. They cannot rescue themselves from the power of the flame. This is not a coal for warming themselves, or a fire to sit beside!


His rock  will pass away because of fear, and his officers will be afraid because of the signal flag. This is the Lord’s declaration #– #whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.


For your servant knows that I have sinned. But look! Today I am the first one of the entire house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.’


For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes thorns and briars and kindles the forest thickets so that they go up in a column of smoke.


The land is scorched by the wrath of the  Lord of Armies, and the people are like fuel for the fire. No one has compassion on his brother.


They will have no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth  in the year of their punishment.’


I will cut off the ruler from Ashdod, and the one who wields the sceptre from Ashkelon. I will also turn my hand against Ekron, and the remainder of the Philistines  will perish. The Lord God has spoken.


‘For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘not leaving them root or branches.


So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.





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