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   ocr: the Edomites were gloating over the sraelites calamity. True children of Esau, they thought primarily of the immediate gain available to them from plunder. The Edomites' attitude contrasts sharply with the sorrow expressed in the book of amentations. And Obadiah, the shortest book in the Old Testament, makes clear that the domites would pay for their callousness and cruelty: "As you have done, it will be done to you. a Those who had betrayed Judah would be repaid with treachery from their own allies. badiah predicted opposite futures for srael and Edom. According to him, downtrodden srael woul ...