Obadiah 1:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their calamity; you should not have joined in the gloating over Judah’s disaster on the day of his calamity; you should not have stolen his goods on the day of his calamity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ You should not have entered the gate of My people in the day of their calamity and ruin; yes, you should not have looked [with delight] on their misery in the day of their calamity and ruin, and not have reached after their army and their possessions in the day of their calamity and ruin.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Enter not into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, look not thou on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither lay ye hands on their substance in the day of their calamity.

Common English Bible

¹³ You shouldn’t have entered the gate of my people on the day of their defeat; you shouldn’t have even looked on his suffering on the day of his disaster; you shouldn’t have stolen his possessions on the day of his distress.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ And neither shall you enter into the gate of my people in the day of their ruin. And neither shall you also show disdain for his troubles in the day of his desolation. And you shall not send out against his army in the day of his desolation.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of my people in the day of their ruin: neither shalt thou also look on in his evils in the day of his calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against his army in the day of his desolation.

Obadiah 1:13 Cross References

2 Samuel 16:12

It may be that the Lord will look on my distress, and the Lord will repay me with good for this cursing of me today.”

Job 31:29

“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of those who hated me or exulted when evil overtook them—

Psalm 22:17

I can count all my bones. They stare and gloat over me;

Jeremiah 46:21

Even her mercenaries in her midst are like fatted calves; they, too, have turned and fled together; they did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

Ezekiel 35:10

Because you said, “These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them”—although the Lord was there—

Ezekiel 35:5

Because you cherished an ancient enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment,

Ezekiel 36:2

Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy said of you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient heights have become our possession,”

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: Because they made you desolate indeed and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and an object of gossip and slander among the people,

Zechariah 1:15

and I am extremely angry with the nations that are at ease, for while I was only a little angry, they made the disaster worse.