Obadiah 1:16 KJV
For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
Thou and Ye
- ye more than one
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
Matthew Henry
- Destruction to come upon Edom. Their offences against JacobThis prophecy is against Edom. Its destruction seems to have been typical, as their father Esau's rejection; and to refer to the destruction of the enemies...
Thompson Chains
- Cup of WrathSee the chain from Job 21:20 · 9 links
Cross References
- Jeremiah 49:12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.
- Joel 3:17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
- Isaiah 51:22–23 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: …
- Jeremiah 25:15–16 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. …
- Psalms 75:8–9 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. …
- Isaiah 8:9–10 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. …
- Isaiah 29:7–8 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. …
- Isaiah 42:14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
- Isaiah 49:25–26 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. …
- Jeremiah 25:27–29 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. …
- Habakkuk 1:9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
- 1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
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Topics
- Edomites Join Babylon in war against the Israelites
Hebrew and Strong’s
- For as ye have drunk כִּי kî Conjunction כַּאֲשֶׁר kaʾăšer Relative · with preposition שְׁתִיתֶם šĕtîtem שָׁתָה Verb · qal perfect, second person masculine plural
- upon my holy קָדְשִׁי qodšî קֹדֶשׁ Noun · masculine singular construct · with suffix: first person common singular
- mountain עַל ʿal Preposition הַר har הַר Noun · masculine singular construct
- shall all the heathen כָל kol Noun · masculine singular construct הַגּוֹיִם haggôyim גּוֹי Noun · masculine plural · with the
- drink יִשְׁתּוּ yištû שָׁתָה Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine plural
- continually תָּמִיד tāmîd תָּמִיד Noun · masculine singular
- yea, they shall drink וְשָׁתוּ wĕšātû שָׁתָה Verb · qal sequential perfect, third person common plural · with and
- and they shall swallow down וְלָעוּ wĕlāʿû לוּעַ Verb · qal sequential perfect, third person common plural · with and
- and they shall be as though they had not וְהָיוּ wĕhāyû Verb · qal sequential perfect, third person common plural · with and כְּלוֹא kĕlôʾ לֹא Negative · with preposition הָיוּ hāyû Verb · qal perfect, third person common plural
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