Obadiah 1:3
The pride of yours heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2Behold, I have made you small among the heathen: you are greatly despised.
Cross References
Genesis 36:8Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
2 Chronicles 25:12And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
Proverbs 18:12Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
Isaiah 10:14And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Isaiah 14:15Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Isaiah 47:7And you said, I shall be a lady for ever: so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.
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 →