Chapter 83

Also a Psalm of Asaph.

First 8 verses a division.  This is a call for God's justice against the nations that plot and conspire against Israel.  Many conspirators are named, and Edom is among them.  So are Philistia and Asshur.

2023 - This verse:

4 They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!" [Psa 83:4 ESV].

This is another of those verses that show us how very little things have changed on planet earth.  Today it is Iran saying this mostly, but Iraq, Lebanon, "Phillistia" still saying it.  Back then it was Edom, the Ishmaelites (this is who the Muslims say they come from), Moab, and the Hagrites, Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek. Tyre, Asshur...Pretty much the same back then as it is now.  Israel sits alone in the midst of enemies.  She is surrounded by nations that hate her and want her wiped out completely with all her people.  The nations now, as then, openly advocate genocide of the Jews.

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9-12 are the second division.  A further appeal, but more specific, calling for God to do as he did to Sisera and Jabin, and so on.  References to historic justice carried out by God.

Last division, vss 13-18.  Similar to first division.  A call for God to overwhelm them, make them ashamed, and also that men may know that the Lord is the Most High over all the earth.

Again, not sure what ties this directly to Obadiah's time.  Maybe it's just that the theme's of these three are so similar that they are arranged as concurrent - but may not be at all.  I would have thought Asaph was long dead in Obadiah's time.