Obadiah 7 to Jeremiah 49:12

Later Text: Obadiah 7

OT Source(s): Jeremiah 49:12

Source: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)

Reference Type: Allusion

Connection Method(s): None — no demonstrable method: Jeremiah 49:12's cup of judgment corresponds to Obadiah 16 ("as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually"), not to Obadiah 7's betrayal by allies; the paired verses themselves share no textual feature.

Significance: Jeremiah 49:12 uses the cup-of-wrath metaphor: "If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished?" This echoes Obadiah's theme of Edom's impending judgment — if even Israel must drink God's cup of judgment, how much more the nations, and especially Edom, who rejoiced over Judah's calamity. Both oracles target Edom with the logic of divine justice: those who gloated over Israel's suffering will face worse. The cup imagery links to Jeremiah's broader nations-oracle framework (25:15-26) while Obadiah focuses specifically on the principle of reciprocal judgment (Obad 15: "as you have done, it will be done to you").

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