1 The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Sovereign LORD says about Edom— We have heard a message from the LORD: An envoy was sent to the nations to say, “Rise, let us go against her for battle”—
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“See, I will make you small among the nations; you will be utterly despised.
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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?’
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Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
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“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?
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But how Esau will be ransacked, his hidden treasures pillaged!