Obadiah 1:16

For as ye have drunk upon My Har Kodesh (Holy Mountain), 1 so shall all the Goyim drink continually; 1 yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, 1 and they shall be as though they had not been. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

15For the Yom Hashem is near upon all the Goyim: 1 as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: 1 thy reward shall return upon thine own head. 1

17But upon Mount Tziyon shall be deliverance, 1 and there shall be kodesh (holiness); 1 and the Beis Ya'akov shall possess their inheritances. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 8:9Exasperate yourselves, O ye Amim (Nations), and ye shall be broken in pieces; 1 and give ear, all ye of far countries; 1 gird yourselves for battle, and ye shall be broken in pieces; 1 gird yourselves for battle, and ye shall be broken in pieces. 1

Isaiah 42:14I have me'olam held My peace; 1 I have been quiet, and refrained Myself; 1 now will I cry out like a travailing woman; 1 I will lay waste and devour at once. 1

Isaiah 51:22Thus saith thy L-rd Hashem, 1 and thy G-d that pleadeth the cause of His people: 1 Hinei, I have taken out of thine yad 1 the Kos HaTarelah (Cup of Reeling, the Cup that causes reeling), 1 even the dregs of the cup of My fury; 1 thou shalt no more drink it again; 1

Jeremiah 25:27Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os Elohei Yisroel: Drink ye, and become shikkor, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the cherev which I will send among you.

Jeremiah 49:12For thus saith Hashem: Hinei, they + 49:12 i.e., the innocent whose mishpat was not to drink of the Kos have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? Thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

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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