Obadiah 1:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

If thieves came, attacking you by night, how are you cut off! would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:19

The glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low!

Isaiah 14:12

How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!

Isaiah 17:6

But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 24:13

For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.

Jeremiah 49:9

If men came to get your grapes, would they not let some be uncut on the vines? if thieves came by night, would they not make waste till they had enough?

Jeremiah 50:23

How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!

Jeremiah 6:9

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Everything will be taken from the rest of Israel as the last grapes are taken from the vine; let your hand be turned to the small branches, like one pulling off grapes.

Lamentations 1:1

See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!

Obadiah 1:9

And your men of war, O Teman, will be overcome with fear, so that every one of them may be cut off from the mountain of Esau.

Micah 7:1

Sorrow is mine! for I am as when they have got in the summer fruits, like the last of the grapes: there is nothing for food, not even an early fig for my desire.

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.

Deuteronomy 24:21

When you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do not take up those which have been dropped; let them be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.

Revelation 18:10

Watching from far away, for fear of her punishment, saying, Sorrow, sorrow for Babylon, the great town, the strong town! for in one hour you have been judged.