Obadiah 1:5
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Obadiah 1:5

The Prophet shows in this verse that the calamity with which God was resolved to afflict the Idumeans would not be slight, for nothing would be left among them; and he amplifies what he says by a comparison. When one is plundered of his property by thieves, he grieves, that what he had acquired by much labour through life, has been in one moment taken from him: and when any one has spent labour and expense in cultivating his vineyard, and another takes away its fruit, he complains of his great misfortune, that he had lost his property and his labour in the cultivation of his vineyard, while another devours its fruit. But the Prophet intimates that God would not be content with such kind of punishment as to the Idumeans.

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