Obadiah 20-21

Contemporary English Version

²⁰Those who return from captivity
will control Phoenicia
    as far as Zarephath.^[a]
Captives from Jerusalem
    who were taken to Sepharad^[b]
will capture the towns
    of the Southern Desert.
²¹Those the Lord has saved
will live on Mount Zion
    and rule over Edom.^[c]
Then the kingdom will belong
    to the Lord.

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Footnotes

20 Those who return … Zarephath: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
20 Sepharad: Possibly the city of Sardis, the capital of Lydia, a country north and west of Media. This would refer to those captives from Judah who had been taken beyond the kingdom of Babylonia.
21 Those the Lord … Edom: Or “Leaders on (from) Mount Zion will save the people and rule over Edom.”