Obadiah 1:2-9

2 “See, I will make you small among the nations; you will be utterly despised.
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks[a] and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
4 Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
5 “If thieves came to you, if robbers in the night— oh, what a disaster awaits you!— would they not steal only as much as they wanted? If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave a few grapes?
6 But how Esau will be ransacked, his hidden treasures pillaged!
7 All your allies will force you to the border; your friends will deceive and overpower you; those who eat your bread will set a trap for you,[b]but you will not detect it.
8 “In that day,” declares the LORD, “will I not destroy the wise men of Edom, those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
9 Your warriors, Teman, will be terrified, and everyone in Esau’s mountains will be cut down in the slaughter.

Cross References 12

  • 1. Numbers 24:18
  • 2. S Isaiah 16:6
  • 3. "fn" Isaiah 16:1
  • 4. S 2 Chronicles 25:11-12; Isaiah 14:13-15; Revelation 18:7
  • 5. S Isaiah 10:14; Habakkuk 2:9
  • 6. S Isaiah 14:13
  • 7. S Job 20:6
  • 8. S Deuteronomy 4:27; Deuteronomy 24:21; S Isaiah 24:13
  • 9. Jeremiah 30:14
  • 10. S Psalms 41:9
  • 11. Job 5:12; Isaiah 29:14
  • 12. S Genesis 36:11,34

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Or "of Sela"
  • [b]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
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