If thieves came to you - The prophet describes their future punishment, by contrast with that which, as a marauding people, they well knew. …

The completene of the overthrow awaiting Edom. It is no mere inroad of a marauding tribe. Something would escape the robber, though he mig…

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 lef…

If thieves came to you, if robbers by night Whether the one came by day, and the other by night, or both by night, the sa…

This prophecy is against Edom. Its destruction seems to have been typical, like their father Esau's rejection, and appears to refer to the destruct…