Jeremiah 49:15

“For, lo, I will make thee small among the Heathen, etc.] Or, “I have given thee”, or “made thee”f926; as if it respected what Edom was at first, a people few in number, and their country not large, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi, and after them Abarbinel: but it rather intends what Edom should bef927; and which was the reason of gathering the Chaldeans against them, to reduce their number, weaken their strength, and destroy their substance, and so make them a small, feeble, and contemptible people; as follows: [and] despised among men: for the fewness of their men, the desolation of their country, the consumption of their wealth and riches, their poverty and meanness; (see Obidiah 1:2).”

“David and Joab had already humbled Edom (Sa2 8:14).”

“Edom stretched along the south of Judah from the border of Moab on the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and the Arabian deserts, and held the same relation to Judah which Moab held toward the kingdom of Israel. Although expressly reserved from attack by Moses Deuteronomy 2:5, a long feud caused the Edomites to cherish so bitter an enmity against Judah, that they exulted with cruel joy over the capture of Jerusalem by the Chaldaeans, and showed great cruelty toward those why fled to them for refuge. Of the prophecies against Edom the first eight verses of Obadiah are also found in Jeremiah (see the marginal references). As Jeremiah wrote before the capture of Jerusalem, and Obadiah apparently…”

“49:15-16 The leaders of Edom thought themselves powerful because they stirred fear in those who passed through their land on the King’s Highway. • Edom had a rock fortress, now called Petra; it was hard to find and could only be approached through a deep, narrow gorge. Even this remote place could not secure the Edomites against the Lord’s judgment.”

“Sa1 2:7, Sa1 2:8, Sa1 2:30; Psa 53:5; Oba 1:2; Mic 7:10; Luk 1:51 Jeremiah 49:16”