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The arrogance in your heart has deceived you,
    who inhabit hidden places on rocky cliffs,
    whose dwelling is in the heights,
    who say continuously to yourself,[a]
        ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
Though you soar high like the eagle
    and make your nest among the stars,
I will bring you down even from there,”
        declares the Lord.[b]

The Harvest from Edom’s Arrogance

“If thieves came against you,
    if marauding gangs by night
        —Oh, how you will be destroyed!—
Would they not steal only until they had enough?
If grape pickers came to you,
    would they not leave some[c] grapes to be gleaned?

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:3 Lit. continually in your heart
  2. Obadiah 1:4 Cf. Jer 49:14-16
  3. Obadiah 1:5 The Heb. lacks some