Obadiah 4-6

The Voice

Edom named its capital city “Rock,” and many of the people there were cave dwellers, virtually unreachable.

⁴    Even if you fly high as the eagle, believing yourselves strong and free,
        and put your nest among the stars,
    I will have no trouble bringing you down.

This is declared by the Eternal One.

⁵Consider how thoroughly you will be wiped out.
    If thieves come to steal from you
And robbers arrive under cover of night,
    won’t they take only what they want?
If the grape harvesters arrive,
    doesn’t their hasty picking usually leave some fruit in the field for the poor?
⁶But Esau, your nation will be ransacked;
    there will be nothing left.
Every last treasure you had carefully hidden will be taken.