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Obadiah 1:16

Obadiah 1:16
For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the Heathen drink continually,.... Which is either spoken to the Edomites; and the sense be, according to the Targum,

"as ye have rejoiced at…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

For as ye have drunk - Revelry always followed pagan victory; often, desecration. The Romans bore in triumph the vessels of the second temple, Nebuchadnezzar carried away the sacred vessels of the…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

For as ye have drunk - This address is to the Jews. As ye have been visited and punished upon my holy mountain in Jerusalem, so shall other nations be punished in their respective countries. See Jer…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Obadiah 1:10-16

When we have read Edom's doom, no less than utter ruin, it is natural to ask, Why, what evil has he done? What is the ground of God's controversy with him? Many things, no doubt, were amiss in Edom;…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Obadiah 1:15-16

After the description in Oba 1:11-14, of the fault for which Edom was to be punished, the prophet returns in these two verses to the subject of Oba 1:2-9, and completes the description of the…