Obadiah 1:3
Behold, I have made you small among the Gentiles: you are greatly dishonored. The pride of your heart has elated you, dwelling as you do in the holes of the rocks, as one that exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
2Arise you⌃, and let us rise up against her to war.
Cross References
Genesis 36:8And Esau lived in mount Seir; Esau, he is Edom.
2 Chronicles 25:12And the children of Juda took ten thousand prisoners, and they carried them to the top of the precipice, and cast them headlong from the top of the precipice, and they were all dashed to pieces.
Proverbs 18:12Before ruin a man's heart is exalted, and before honor it is humble.
Isaiah 10:14And I will shake the inhabited cities: and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest: and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape me, or contradict me.
Isaiah 14:15But now you shall go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth.
Isaiah 47:7and said, I shall be a princess for ever: you did not perceive these things in your heart, nor did you remember the latter end.
Matthew Henry on Obadiah 1:2-10
The Doom of Edom. ( b. c. 587.) 1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the Lord , and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. 2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised. 3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 4 Though thou exalt… Read the whole commentary →