The splendour of Israel lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
Obadiah 1:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised If thieves came to you, if marauders by night – how ravaged you would be! – wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted? If grape harvesters came to you, wouldn’t they leave a few grapes? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If thieves came to you, if robbers by night–how you are brought to nothing!–would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes for gleaning? [But this ravaging was done by God, not men.] [Jer. 49:9.] American Standard Version (1901) If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night (how art thou cut off!), would they not steal only till they had enough? if grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? Common English Bible If thieves approach you, if robbers by night—how you’ve been devastated!— wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted? If those who gather grapes came to you, wouldn’t they leave some grapes? Catholic Public Domain Version If thieves had approached you, if robbers by night, how would you have remained unnoticed? Would they not have stolen all that they wanted? If the grape-pickers had approached you, would they not have left you at least a cluster? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If thieves had gone in to thee, if robbers by night, how wouldst thou have held thy peace? would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers had come in to thee, would they not have left thee at the least a cluster? |
The splendour of Israel lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
Shining morning star, , how you have fallen from the heavens! You destroyer of nations, you have been cut down to the ground.
Only gleanings will be left in Israel, as if an olive tree had been beaten – two or three olives at the very top of the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches. This is the declaration of the Lord, the God of Israel.
For this is how it will be on earth among the nations: like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
If grape harvesters came to you, wouldn’t they leave a few grapes? Were thieves to come in the night, they would destroy only what they wanted.
How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and smashed! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
This is what the Lord of Armies says: Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.
How she sits alone, the city once crowded with people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow. The princess among the provinces has been put to forced labour.
Teman, , your warriors will be terrified so that everyone from the hill country of Esau will be destroyed by slaughter.
How sad for me! For I am like one who – when the summer fruit has been gathered after the gleaning of the grape harvest – finds no grape cluster to eat, no early fig, which I crave.
This is the jubilant city that lives in security, that says to herself: I exist, and there is no one else. What a desolation she has become, a place for wild animals to lie down! Everyone who passes by her scoffs and shakes his fist.
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not glean what is left. What remains will be for the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! For in a single hour your judgement has come.