Obadiah 1:17

But upon Mount Tziyon shall be deliverance, 1 and there shall be kodesh (holiness); 1 and the Beis Ya'akov shall possess their inheritances. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16For as ye have drunk upon My Har Kodesh (Holy Mountain), 1 so shall all the Goyim drink continually; 1 yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, 1 and they shall be as though they had not been. 1

18And the Beis Ya'akov shall be an eish (fire), 1 and the Beis Yosef a flame, 1 and the Beis Esav for stubble, 1 and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; 1 and there shall not be any remaining of the Beis Esav; 1 for Hashem hath spoken. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 4:3And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Tziyon, and he that remaineth in Yerushalayim, shall be called kadosh, even every one that is hakatuv lachayyim + 4:3 see Ex 32:32; Ps 69:28; Dan 12:1; Mal 3:16 (recorded for life…Rosh Hashana theme) in Yerushalayim:

Isaiah 46:13I bring near My tzedakah; 1 it shall not be far off, 1 and My Teshuah (Salvation) shall not tarry; 1 and I will place Teshuah in Tziyon 1 for Yisroel Tife'arti (My Glory).

Isaiah 65:9And I will bring forth a zera out of Ya'akov, 1 and out of Yehudah a yoresh (inheritor) of My mountains; 1 and Mine Bechir (Chosen ones) shall inherit it, 1 and My Servants shall dwell there. 1

Jeremiah 44:14So that none of the she'erit (remnant) of Yehudah, which are gone into Eretz Mitzrayim to sojourn there, shall escape or survive, that they should return into Eretz Yehudah, to the which they lift up [in desire] their nefesh to return to dwell there; for none shall return but such as shall escape.

Jeremiah 46:28Fear thou not, O Ya'akov Avdi, saith Hashem; 1 for I am with thee; 1 for I will make a full end of kol HaGoyim 1 where I have scattered thee; 1 but I will not make a full end of thee, 1 but correct thee with mishpat (justice); 1 yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

Ezekiel 36:12Indeed, I will cause adam to walk upon you, even My people Yisroel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their nachalah, and thou shalt no more again bereave them of their children.

Matthew Henry on Obadiah 1:11-17

The Guilt of Edom. ( b. c. 587.) 10 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. 11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. 12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah… Read the whole commentary →

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