Obadiah 1:12

Edom Mistreated His Brother

10 “For ^aviolence against your brother Jacob,
Shame shall cover you,
And ^byou shall be cut off forever.

11 In the day that you ^astood on the other side—
In the day that strangers carried captive his forces,
When foreigners entered his gates
And ^bcast lots for Jerusalem—
Even you were as one of them.

12 “But you should not have ^agazed on the day of your brother
¹In the day of his captivity;
Nor should you have ^brejoiced over the children of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Nor should you have spoken proudly
In the day of distress.

13 You should not have entered the gate of My people
In the day of their calamity.
Indeed, you should not have¹ gazed on their affliction
In the day of their calamity,
Nor laid hands on their substance
In the day of their calamity.

14 You should not have stood at the crossroads
To cut off those among them who escaped;
Nor should you have¹ delivered up those among them who remained
In the day of distress.

15 “For^a the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near;
^bAs you have done, it shall be done to you;
Your¹ reprisal shall return upon your own head.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Thou shouldest not have looked - It shows a malevolent heart to rejoice in the miseries of those who have acted unkindly or wickedly towards us. The Edomites triumphed when they saw the judgments of God fall upon the Jews. This the Lord severely reprehends in Obadiah 1:12-15. If a man have acted cruelly towards us, and God punish him for this cruelty, and we rejoice in it, we make his crime our own; and then, as we have done, so shall it be done unto us; see Obadiah 1:15. All these verses point out the part the Edomites took against the Jews when the Chaldeans besieged and took Jerusalem, destroyed the temple, and divided the spoils.

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