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Your pride has fooled you.
    You live in those caves high on the cliff.
    Your home is high in the hills.
So you say to yourself,
    ‘No one can bring me to the ground.’”

Edom Will Be Brought Low

This is what the Lord says:
“Even though you fly high like the eagle
    and put your nest among the stars,
    I will bring you down from there.
You really will be ruined!
    Thieves will come to you.
Robbers will come in the night,
    and they will take all they want.
When workers gather grapes in your vineyards,
    they will leave a few grapes behind.

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The pride(A) of your heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rocks[a](B)
    and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
    ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’(C)
Though you soar like the eagle
    and make your nest(D) among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,”(E)
declares the Lord.(F)
“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?(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:3 Or of Sela