Obadiah 1:5

If 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?

Unlocked Literal Bible

In The King James Version

If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?

In Context

4Though you soar high like the eagle and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.

6How Esau has been ransacked, his hidden treasures will be searched out!

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 24:21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not glean it again. What is left over will be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Isaiah 14:12How you are fallen from heaven, daystar, son of the morning! 1 How you are cut down to the ground, you who conquered the nations! 1

Isaiah 24:13For this is how it will be on the whole earth among the nations, 1 as when an olive tree is beaten, as the gleanings when the grape harvest is done. 1

Jeremiah 49:9If grape harvesters came to you, would they not leave a little bit behind? 1 If thieves came in the night, would they not steal only as much as they wanted? 1

Lamentations 1:1The city that once was full of people is now sitting all alone. 1 She has become like a widow, though she was a mighty nation. 1 She was a princess among the nations, but is now forced into slavery. 1

Zephaniah 2:15This is the exultant city that lived without fear, 1 that said in her heart, “I am, and nothing is my equal.” 1 How she has become a horror, a place for beasts to lie down in. 1 Everyone that passes by her will hiss and shake his fist at her.

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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