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?

Cross References

Jeremiah 49:9

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.

Deuteronomy 24:21

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.

Isaiah 17:6

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.

Zephaniah 2:15

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.

Micah 7:1

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.

Lamentations 1:1

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.

Jeremiah 50:23

How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and smashed! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Isaiah 24:13

For this is how it will be on earth among the nations: like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

Isaiah 14:12

Shining morning star,  , how you have fallen from the heavens! You destroyer of nations, you have been cut down to the ground.

2 Samuel 1:19

The splendour of Israel lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!

Revelation 18:10

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.

Jeremiah 6:9

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.

Obadiah 1:9

Teman,  , your warriors  will be terrified so that everyone from the hill country of Esau will be destroyed by slaughter.