Obadiah 1:16 meaning and explanation

For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.

Obadiah 1:16, Berean Standard Bible

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In this closing section of Obadiah's vision, the Lord addresses Edom and the nations gathered against Jerusalem. The drinking on God's holy mountain likely points to the celebratory drinking that followed the city's fall, or to the prophets' image of the cup of wrath.

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