Obadiah 1:4

Though you soar high like the eagle and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.

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Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

In Context

3The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty home; who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”

5If thieves came to you, if robbers came by night—how you will be ruined!—would they not steal only as much as they needed? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave the gleanings?

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Cross References

Job 39:27Is it at your orders that the eagle mounts up 1 and makes his nest in high places? 1

Jeremiah 49:16As for your fearsomeness, your heart's pride has deceived you, inhabitants of places on the cliff, 1 you who have occupied the highest hills so that you may make your nest high like an eagle. 1 I will bring you down from there—this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

Amos 9:2Though they dig into Sheol, 1 there my hand will take them. 1 Though they climb up to heaven, 1 there I will bring them down. 1

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 →

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