My hand has found, like a nest, the wealth of the peoples, and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth, and there was none that moved a wing or opened its mouth or chirped.”
Obadiah 1:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, says the Lord. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Though you mount on high as the eagle and though you set your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though thy nest be set among the stars, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible Though you soar like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version Though you have been lifted high like an eagle, and though you have placed your nest among the stars, from there I will pull you down, says the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord. |
My hand has found, like a nest, the wealth of the peoples, and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth, and there was none that moved a wing or opened its mouth or chirped.”
The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Although you make your nest as high as the eagle’s, from there I will bring you down, says the Lord.
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, from me destroyers would come upon her, says the Lord.
Though they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.
“Alas for you who get evil gain for your house, setting your nest on high to be safe from the reach of harm!”