Scripture · Old Testament
Obadiah 1:4
Obadiah 1:4 is verse 4 of Obadiah chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
Read in context
Obadiah 1:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 “Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
4 Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
5 “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night— oh, how you will be ruined— would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
6 But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!
Read all of Obadiah 1Hebrew words
Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Study Obadiah 1:4
Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 20:6Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
Job 20:7he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
Job 39:27Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?
Job 39:28He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag.
Jeremiah 49:16The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
Isaiah 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
Isaiah 14:13You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.
Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
Isaiah 14:15But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.
Jeremiah 51:53Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.
Amos 9:2Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.