Matthew Poole and continuators on Obadiah 1:16

16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain e, 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 .

This, with some, is a confirmation of what is threatned against Edom ▪ ye[illegible: 1 letter] others make this verse the beginning of the Consolato[illegible: 1 letter]y Sermon to Iudah, and either suits well with the Context.

O Edomites, or ye O Iewes.

If you interpret this drinking as feasting, revelling and carousing, 'tis to be applyed to the Edomites, and others, who triumpht first by their armes, next in their cups over conquer'd Judah.

The Nations, enemies to Edom ▪ shall on Mount Esau conquer first, and then triumph in their revelling Feasts, and drink continually, till they have swallowed u[illegible: 1 letter] Edom.

Edomites

shall by this means perish utterly, and their memory cease with them, so it suits with Ezek. 35.14, 15. whic[illegible: 1 letter] see. Others refer the words to the Jewes, thus, ye have dru[illegible: 2 letters] the cup of astonishment in your land, and in Jerusalem, my [illegible: 1 letter]oly Mountain; So now ere long the Nations which afflicted you shall drink of the cup of astonishment, long, yea drink the dregs of it, so that they shall perish, and be no more, when your day of dark affliction shall end in a day of light and salvation, and when other Nations do this, Edom shall much more, because most deeply guilty above others, Vid. Jer. 49.17, 18.21, 22.

Either the whole land, or Jerusalem, or the Temple, for all these are called by this name, and here these proud and insolent conquerours did drink confusion to the Jewes.

Marginal references: Or, s[illegible: 1 letter]p up.