Obadiah 1:16

“For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, [so] shall all the Heathen drink continually, etc.] Which is either spoken to the Edomites; and the sense be, according to the Targum, “as ye have rejoiced at the blow (given unto or at the subversion and destruction) of the mountain of my holiness, all people shall drink the cup of their vengeance;” or punishment; and to the same sense Jarchi and Japhet interpret it; and so Kimchi, “as ye have made a feast, rejoicing at the destruction of my holy mountain, so thou and all nations shall drink of the cup of trembling;” but Aben Ezra thinks the words are spoken to the Israelites, “as ye have drank the cup, so shall all nations;” the cup of vengeance…”

“ye . . . upon my holy mountain--a periphrasis for, "ye Jews" [MAURER], whom Obadiah now by a sudden apostrophe addresses. The clause, "upon My holy mountain," expresses the reason of the vengeance to be taken on Judah's foes; namely, that Jerusalem is God's holy mountain, the seat of His temple, and Judah His covenant-people. , which is copied from Obadiah, establishes this view (compare ). as ye have drunk, &c.--namely, the cup of wrath, being dispossessed of your goods and places as a nation, by Edom and all the heathen; so shall all the heathen (Edom included) drink the same cup (; , ; ; Jer. 25:15-33; ; ; ; ). continually--whereas Judah's calamity shall be temporary (). The foes of Judah…”

“For as ye have drunk - Revelry always followed pagan victory; often, desecration. The Romans bore in triumph the vessels of the second temple, Nebuchadnezzar carried away the sacred vessels of the first. Edom, in its hatred of God’s people, doubtless regarded the destruction of Jerusalem, as a victory of polytheism (the gods of the Babylonians, and their own god Coze), over God, as Hyrcanus, in his turn, required them, when conquered, to be circumcised. God’s “holy mountain is the hill of Zion,” including mount Moriah on which the temple stood. This they desecrated by idolatrous revelry, as, in contrast, it is said that, when the pagan enemy had been destroyed, “mount Zion” should “be…”

“As ye - As ye, my own people, have drunk deep of the cup of affliction, so shall other nations much more, yea, they shall drink of it, 'till they utterly perish. Obadiah 1:17”

“as ye: Psa 75:8, Psa 75:9; Isa 49:25, Isa 49:26, Isa 51:22, Isa 51:23; Jer 25:15, Jer 25:16, Jer 25:27-29, Jer 49:12; Joe 3:17; Pe1 4:17 swallow down: or, sup up, Isa 42:14 \*marg. Hab 1:9 and they shall be: Isa 8:9, Isa 8:10, Isa 29:7, Isa 29:8 Obadiah 1:17”