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Obadiah 1:17

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deliverance: or, they that escape, Jeremiah 44:14, Jeremiah 44:28; Ezekiel 7:16

there shall be holiness: or, it shall be holy, Isaiah 1:27, Isaiah 4:3-4, Isaiah 60:21; Joel 3:17; Zechariah 8:3, Zechariah 14:20-21; Revelation 21:27

possess: Isaiah 14:1-2; Joel 3:19-21; Amos 9:11-15

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