Obadiah 1:1-6

Obadiah’s Vision

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”—
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!

Cross References 12

  • 1. S Isaiah 1:1
  • 2. S Genesis 25:14; S Isaiah 11:14; S Isaiah 34:11; Isaiah 63:1-6; Jeremiah 49:7-22; S Ezekiel 25:12-14; S Ezekiel 32:29; S Amos 1:11-12
  • 3. Isaiah 18:2
  • 4. Jeremiah 6:4-5
  • 5. Numbers 24:18
  • 6. S Isaiah 16:6
  • 7. "fn" Isaiah 16:1
  • 8. S 2 Chronicles 25:11-12; Isaiah 14:13-15; Revelation 18:7
  • 9. S Isaiah 10:14; Habakkuk 2:9
  • 10. S Isaiah 14:13
  • 11. S Job 20:6
  • 12. S Deuteronomy 4:27; Deuteronomy 24:21; S Isaiah 24:13

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