Edom stretched along the south of Judah from the border of Moab on the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and the Arabian deserts, and held the same rel…

Leave thy fatherless children ... —Were the words uttered in the stern irony of one who veils a threat in the fo…

Regarding the beginning of the verse, the Prophet's meaning is not obscure; for he means that the destruction of the people of Edom would be so sev…

Leave your fatherle children, I will preserve [them] alive ,
&c.] Leave them with me; commit them to my care; I will…

The Edomites were old enemies to the Israel of God. But their day is now at hand; it is foretold, not only to warn them, but for the sake of the Is…