Wednesday, October 16

But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;

it will be holy,

and Jacob will possess his inheritance.

Jacob will be a fire

and Joseph a flame;

Esau will be stubble,

and they will set him on fire and destroy him.

There will be no survivors

from Esau.”

The Lord has spoken.

People from the Negev will occupy

the mountains of Esau,

and people from the foothills will possess

the land of the Philistines.

They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,

and Benjamin will possess Gilead.

This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan

will possess the land as far as Zarephath;

the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

will possess the towns of the Negev.

Deliverers will go up on[a] Mount Zion

to govern the mountains of Esau.

And the kingdom will be the Lord’s.