Obadiah 1:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Your allies can't be trusted. They will force you out of your own country. Your best friends will trick and trap you, even before you know it.

Cross References

Psalm 41:10

Have pity, LORD! Heal me, so I can pay them back.

Psalm 41:9

My most trusted friend has turned against me, though he ate at my table.

Isaiah 27:11

When broken branches fall to the ground, women pick them up to feed the fire. But these people are so stupid that the God who created them will show them no mercy.

Jeremiah 20:10

I heard the crowds whisper, “Everyone is afraid. Now's our chance to accuse Jeremiah!” All of my so called friends are just waiting for me to make a mistake. They say, “Perhaps Jeremiah can be tricked. Then we can overpower him and get even at last.”

Jeremiah 30:14

Your friends have forgotten you; they don't care any more. Even I have acted like an enemy. And because your sins are horrible and countless, I will be cruel as I punish you. So don't bother to cry out for relief from your pain.

Jeremiah 38:22

then the women of your palace will be taken prisoner by Nebuchadnezzar's officials. And those women will say to you: Friends you trusted led you astray. Now you're trapped in mud, and those friends you trusted have all turned away.

Jeremiah 4:30

Jerusalem, your land has been wiped out. But you act like a prostitute and try to win back your lovers, who now hate you. You can put on a red dress, gold jewellery, and eye shadow, but it's no use— your lovers are out to kill you!

Jeremiah 49:7

The LORD All-Powerful says about Edom: Wisdom and common sense have vanished from Teman. I will send disaster to punish you descendants of Esau, so anyone from Dedan had better turn round and run back home.

Lamentations 1:19

I called out to my lovers, but they betrayed me. My priests and my leaders died while searching the city for scraps of food.

Hosea 13:13

You are like a senseless child who refuses to be born at the proper time.

Hosea 7:11

Israel is a senseless bird, fluttering back and forth between Egypt and Assyria.

John 13:18

I am not talking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But what the Scriptures say must come true. And they say, “The man who ate with me has turned against me!”