Obadiah 1:13

Thou shouldest not have entered into the sha'ar Ami (gate of My people) 1 in the day of their calamity; 1 yea, thou shouldest not have looked down on their affliction 1 in the day of their calamity, 1 nor have laid hands on their substance 1 in the day of their calamity; 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;

In Context

12But thou shouldest not have gloated over the day 1 of thy brother in the day of his misfortune; 1 neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the Bnei Yehudah 1 in the day of their destruction; 1 neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly 1 in the Yom Tzarah (Day of Trouble). 1

14Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossroads, 1 to cut off those of his that did escape; 1 neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did survive 1 in the Yom Tzarah. 1

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Cross References

Job 31:29If I rejoice at the misfortune of him that hated me, 1 or gloated when rah found him, 1

Ezekiel 35:5Because thou hast had an eivat olam (ancient enmity), and delivered over the Bnei Yisroel to the power of the cherev at the time of their calamity, in the time of their avon ketz (final punishment).

Zechariah 1:15And I am very angry with the Goyim that are [self] secure; 1 for I was but a little angry, 1 and they added to the ra'ah. 1

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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