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Obadiah
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The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom. We have heard news from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle. See also: Amos 1:11-12Joel 3:19Ezekiel 25:12-14Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised. See also: Isaiah 23:9Numbers 24:18Luke 1:51-52The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’ See also: Isaiah 14:13-15Proverbs 29:23Jeremiah 49:16Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says the LORD. See also: Habakkuk 2:9Amos 9:2Job 20:6-7“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes? See also: Jeremiah 49:9Deuteronomy 24:212 Samuel 1:19How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out! See also: Jeremiah 49:10Psalms 139:1Matthew 6:19-20All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.” See also: Psalms 41:9John 13:18Jeremiah 49:7“Won’t I in that day”, says the LORD, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau? See also: Isaiah 29:14Job 5:12-14Psalms 33:10Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter. See also: Ezekiel 25:13Amos 1:12Isaiah 63:1-3For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. See also: Amos 1:11Genesis 27:41Malachi 1:3-4In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them. See also: Psalms 137:7Joel 3:3Nahum 3:10But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress. See also: Proverbs 17:5Micah 4:11Ezekiel 35:15Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity. See also: Zechariah 1:15Ezekiel 35:5Psalms 22:17Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress. See also: Obadiah 1:12Jeremiah 30:7Amos 1:9For the day of the LORD is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head. See also: James 2:13Habakkuk 2:8Matthew 7:2For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been. See also: Joel 3:17Jeremiah 49:121 Peter 4:17But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions. See also: Revelation 21:27Amos 9:11-15Isaiah 14:1-2The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken. See also: Zechariah 12:6Isaiah 10:17Micah 5:8Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead. See also: Zephaniah 2:4-7Amos 9:12Jeremiah 32:44The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev. See also: 1 Kings 17:9-10Luke 4:26Jeremiah 33:13Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be the LORD’s. See also: Zechariah 14:9James 5:20Revelation 11:15
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)20 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Obadiah 1:1
Ver. 1. Edom. The Jews understand this of the Romans; others apply it to themselves; but it seems to speak of the Idumeans. --- Ambassador, prophet, or angel; or God has suffered the passions of men to act. All is here animated.
God appears leading on the various nations. C. ---
He directed their thoughts to unite against Edom. W. --- Yet he did not approve of their ambition.
H.
↑ 1Obadiah 1:2
Ver. 2. Contemptible. The nations of Chaldea, &c. were far more potent. Yet Edom must be brought still lower.
↑ 2Obadiah 1:3
Ver. 3. Rocks. Heb. "Selah," or Petra, the capital. C. --- People dwell in caverns from Eleutheropolis to Ailath. S. Jer.
↑ 3Obadiah 1:4
Ver. 4. Down. Job xx. 6. How vain is all human power!
↑ 4Obadiah 1:5
Ver. 5. Cluster. Jer. xlix. 9. The Chaldeans take all, and remove the people. v. 7.
↑ 5Obadiah 1:7
Ver. 7. Peace. The enemy had used their services against the Jews; but now they invade their confederates. C. --- Of this the Idumeans were not aware. H.
↑ 7Obadiah 1:8
Ver. 8. Esau. Job and Eliphaz were both from this country.
↑ 8Obadiah 1:9
Ver. 9. South. Heb. "Theman," (C.) where the Romans kept a garrison, fifteen miles south of Petra. S. Jer.
↑ 9Obadiah 1:10
Ver. 10. Slaughter. They invaded the dominions of Achaz, and incited the enemy to destroy all.
2 Par. xxviii. 17. Ps. cxxxvi. 7.
↑ 10Obadiah 1:11
Ver. 11. Captive. He alludes to the taking of Sedecias. --- Lots, for the booty, or whether they should burn the city or not. All was regulated by lots. C.
↑ 11Obadiah 1:12
Ver. 12. Thou shalt not look, &c. or thou shouldst not, &c. It is a reprehension for what they had done, and at the same time a declaration that these things should not pass unpunished. Ch. ---
God admonishes, and at the same time insinuates that the Idumeans would act quite the reverse.
W. --- Magnify. Literally, thou shalt not speak arrogantly against the children of Juda, as insulting them in their distress, (Ch.) like people mocking. When they shall be themselves afflicted, they shall cease to upbraid the Jews. C.
↑ 12Obadiah 1:13
Ver. 13. Army. Heb. also, "goods." Sept. "thou wilt not join their army in the day of ruin." H.
--- Thou wilt have other things to think about.
↑ 13Obadiah 1:14
Ver. 14. Flee. The Idumeans might easily have concealed the fugitives. But they were so inhuman as to fall upon them, (C.) or drive them back.
↑ 14Obadiah 1:15
Ver. 15. Nations around. H. --- Josephus (x. 11.) does not specify Edom. But the prophets had announced their destruction, effected by Nabuchodonosor, while the main part of his army besieged Tyre. C.
↑ 15Obadiah 1:16
Ver. 16. Drink. They shall rejoice at your fall, as you did at that of Juda; (S. Jer.) or, as my people has not been spared, can you expect to escape? Jer. xlix. 12.
--- Not. These nations and the Chaldeans themselves were brought low, while the Jews regained the regal power. The cup denotes vengeance. Ps. lxxiv. 9.
Plautus uses the same expression : ut senex hoc eodem poculo, quo ego bibi, biberet. Casina. C.
↑ 16Obadiah 1:17
Ver. 17. Sion. This prosperity, in the historical sense, was promised to the Jews, after their return; and they enjoyed as much of it as their sins did not hinder; the rest was fulfilled in Christ.
S. Jer. ad Dard. W. --- Holy. Providence watched over the Jews in a particular manner, while the neighbouring nations fell a prey to the Persians, to Alexander, &c. The persecution of Epiphanes was sharp, but of short duration; and it gave occasion to the Jews to regain their liberty, and to have kings C.) little (H.) inferior to those of old. --- Them. Heb. "its goods." The Jews obtained all Palestine. C. --- Christ extends his dominion over the world. Theod.
↑ 17Obadiah 1:18
Ver. 18. Stubble. The Jews often attacked Edom, and at last forced them to submit to the law of circumcision. --- Remains. Sept. cop. vary; "corn fire or carrier." H. --- Those who escaped alone from battle had the former title. Hesyc.
purphoros. C. --- Priests went with fire before the armies engaged. If they were slain, it was a sign, that no quarter was given, as these were accounted sacred. Grabe. Prol. H.
↑ 18Obadiah 1:19
Ver. 19. Plains. Sephala. Jos. x. 40. --- Samaria, which the Cutheans had occupied, till Alexander subjected them to the Jews, and Hircan asserted his authority. Jos. Ant. xiii. 18. ---
Galaad, east of the Jordan. Benjamin alone did not occupy this country.
↑ 19Obadiah 1:20
Ver. 20. Sarepta. This was accomplished after the persecution of Epiphanes. ---
Bosphorus. So S. Jerom's master interpreted Bispharad. But it seems rather to mean a part of Mesopotamia.
Sippara stands above, where the Euphrates divides its streams.
↑ 20Obadiah 1:21
Ver. 21. Saviours, the Machabees, as figures of Christ. The temporal power of the Jews ended thirty-seven years after his resurrection. C. -- The rest of this prophecy (v. 19.) regards Christ's kingdom over all nations, which believe in him, and receive the remission of their sins. Acts x.
43. S. Aug. de Civ. Dei. xviii. 31. W.
↑ 21License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses