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| 1 Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Edom, A report we have heard from Jehovah, And an ambassador among nations was sent, 'Rise, yea, let us rise against her for battle.' |
Concerning Edom – Christendom. D15
In battle – The time of trouble. D527
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| 2 Lo, little I have made thee among nations, Despised [art] thou exceedingly. |
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| 3 The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, O dweller in clifts of a rock, (A high place [is] his habitation, He is saying in his heart, 'Who doth bring me down [to] earth?') |
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| 4 If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah. |
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| 5 If thieves have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings? |
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| 6 How hath Esau been searched out! Flowed out have his hidden things, |
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| 7 Unto the border sent thee have all thine allies, Forgotten thee, prevailed over thee, have thy friends, Thy bread they make a snare under thee, There is no understanding in him! |
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| 8 Is it not in that day�an affirmation of Jehovah, That I have destroyed the wise out of Edom, And understanding out of the mount of Esau? |
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| 9 And broken down have been thy mighty ones, O Teman, So that every one of the mount of Esau is cut off. |
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| 10 For slaughter, for violence [to] thy brother Jacob, Cover thee doth shame, And thou hast been cut off�to the age. |
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| 11 In the day of thy standing over-against, In the day of strangers taking captive his force, And foreigners have entered his gates, And for Jerusalem have cast a lot, Even thou [art] as one of them! |
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| 12 And�thou dost not look on the day of thy brother, On the day of his alienation, Nor dost thou rejoice over sons of Judah, In the day of their destruction, Nor make great thy mouth in a day of distress. |
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| 13 Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, Nor look, even thou, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, Nor send forth against its force in a day of its calamity, |
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| 14 Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, Nor deliver up its remnant in a day of distress. |
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| 15 For near [is] the day of Jehovah, on all the nations, As thou hast done, it is done to thee, Thy deed doth turn back on thine own head.
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Day of the LORD – Approaching time of trouble. R2338:5
Heathen – Nations. R2338:5
Done unto thee – Shall come into judgment. R2338:5
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| 16 For�as ye have drunk on My holy mount, Drink do all the nations continually, And they have drunk and have swallowed, And they have been as they have not been. |
Ye have drunk – Of the confused doctrine of Babylon. R3999:3*
They – The nations, not the people. R2338:5
Certain systems of the present time which shall utterly fall, shall go down completely. R5327:4
Shall drink – Drink of the cup of the Lord's anger. R2338:5
They had not been – They will be utterly destroyed as nations in the time of trouble. R2338:5
Although the nations shall never rise again, the people who composed the various nations shall come forth from the grave. R2338:5
Death everlasting will be the penalty inflicted upon all who do not eventually come into the fullest heart-harmony with the Lord. SM766:2; R4553:1, R5327:4
Those who refuse to profit by the glorious opportunities of the Millennium. R4553:1; Q763:2
Used in connection with certain systems of the present time which shall utterly fall, go down completely; might also apply to those who sin wilfully in the Millennium an die the Second Death. R5327:5
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| 17 And in mount Zion there is an escape, And it hath been holy, And the house of Jacob have possessed their possessions. |
But upon mount Zion – The spiritual phase of the Kingdom of God. A297; T33
Shall be deliverance – In the Times of Restitution. D558; F355; R2503:6, R2504:1,2,5
The sight of the drunkard of verse 16 is a good token to show that the deliverance is even now on Mount Zion. R3999:3*
The house of Jacob – Natural Israel. C278; A300
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| 18 And the house of Jacob hath been a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame, And the house of Esau for stubble, And they have burned among them, And they have consumed them, And there is not a remnant to the house of Esau, For Jehovah hath spoken. |
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| 19 And they have possessed the south with the mount of Esau, And the low country with the Philistines, And they have possessed the field of Ephraim, And the field of Samaria, And Benjamin with Gilead. |
They of the south – Those restored to perfect humanity. D653
The mount of Esau – Christendom. D15
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| 20 And the removed of this force of the sons of Israel, That [is with] the Canaanites unto Zarephat, And the removed of Jerusalem that [is] with the Sepharad, Possess the cities of the south. |
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| 21 And gone up have saviours on mount Zion, To judge the mount of Esau, And the kingdom hath been to Jehovah!' |
And saviours – Christ Jesus and his Bride. R238:2*
Leaders guides, kings and priests, typified by those who judged Israel. R528:1*
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