Obadiah 1:12

“But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother, etc.] The day of his calamity, distress, and destruction, as afterwards explained; that is, with delight and satisfaction, as pleased with it, and rejoicing at it; but rather should have grieved and mourned, and as fearing their turn would be next: or, “do not look” f19; so some read it in the imperative, and in like manner all the following clauses: in the day that he became a stranger; were carried into a strange country, and became strangers to their own: or, “in the day of his alienation” f20; from their country, city, houses, and the house and worship of God; and when strange, surprising, and unheard of things were done unto…”

“looked on--with malignant pleasure, and a brutal stare. So the antitypes, Messiah's foes (). MAURER translates, as the Margin, "thou shouldest not look" any more. English Version agrees with the context better. the day of thy brother--his day of calamity. became a stranger--that is, was banished as an alien from his own land. God sends heavy calamities on those who rejoice in the calamities of their enemies (; ). Contrast the opposite conduct of David and of the divine Son of David in a like case (). spoken proudly--literally, "made great the mouth"; proudly insulting the fallen (, Margin; compare ; ).”

“But thou shouldest not - , rather it means, and can only mean , “And look not (i. e., gaze not with pleasure) on the day of thy brother in the day of his becoming a stranger ; and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; and enlarge not thy mouth in the day of distress. Enter not into the gate of My people in the day of their calamity; look not, thou too, on his affliction in the day of his calamity; and lay not hands on his substance in the day of his calamity; And stand not on the crossway, to cut off his fugitives; and shut not up his remnants in the day of distress.” Throughout these three verses, Obadiah uses the future only. It is the voice of earnest,…”

“Looked - With joy on the affliction. A stranger - As a stranger, one who had no more right to any thing in the land. Proudly - Vaunting over the Jews, when Jerusalem was taken. Obadiah 1:13”

“1:12-14 All societies are held accountable for sins such as those of Edom (see, e.g., the oracles against Israel’s neighbors in Amos 1:3–2:3). Among the sins that the Edomites committed against Judah were sharing with the Babylonians in plundering the land (Obad 1:13) and either killing or repatriating Judah’s fugitives (1:14). 1:12 The tribes of Israel were Edom’s relatives (literally brother; cp. Num 20:14). • Edom and other local nations had apparently deceived themselves into thinking that rapprochement with Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC would bring them respite. Their time of judgment would come.”

“thou: etc. or, do not behold, etc looked: Psa 22:17, Psa 37:13, Psa 54:7, Psa 59:10, Psa 92:11; Mic 4:11, Mic 7:8-10; Mat 27:40-43 rejoiced: Job 31:29; Pro 17:5, Pro 24:17, Pro 24:18; Lam 4:21; Eze 25:6, Eze 25:7, Eze 35:15; Mic 7:8; Luk 19:41 thou have: Sa1 2:3; Psa 31:18 spoken proudly: Heb. magnified thy mouth, Isa 37:24; Jam 3:5; Pe2 2:18; Jde 1:16; Rev 13:5 Obadiah 1:13”

“"And look not at the day of thy brother on the day of his misfortune; and rejoice not over the sons of Judah in the day of their perishing, and do not enlarge thy mouth in the day of the distress. Oba 1:13. Come not into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; thou also look not at his misfortune in the day of his calamity, and stretch not out thy hand to his possession in the day of his calamity: Oba 1:14. Nor stand in the cross-road, to destroy his fugitives, nor deliver up his escaped ones in the day of distress." This warning cannot be satisfactorily explained either "on the assumption that the prophet is here foretelling the future destruction of Judah and Jerusalem"…”