Obadiah 1:5,6

The completeness of the destruction and desolation of Edom is depicted by a double contrast. Two cases are supposed in which something would be left behind. The thief or the robber would take his fill and depart: the grape-gatherer would not strip every cluster from the vine. But the enemies of Edom would do worse than either of these. They would spare nothing, nor stay their hand till they had left her utterly desolate and bare.

how art thou cut off These words are an exclamation of the prophet, forced from him by the utter devastation which in prophetic vision he sees before his eyes. Thisis no work of the common robber, of the ordinary spoiler!