Obadiah 1:3

English Standard Version 2016

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”

Cross References

Jeremiah 49:16

The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle’s, I will bring you down from there, declares the Lord.

Proverbs 29:23

One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

Isaiah 16:6

We have heard of the pride of Moab— how proud he is!— of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence; in his idle boasting he is not right.

2 Kings 14:7

He struck down ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this day.

Malachi 1:4

If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.’”

Jeremiah 49:4

Why do you boast of your valleys, O faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come against me?’

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

2 Chronicles 25:12

The men of Judah captured another 10,000 alive and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock, and they were all dashed to pieces.

2 Chronicles 25:11

But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the Valley of Salt and struck down 10,000 men of Seir.

Job 20:6

Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

Jeremiah 21:13

“Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rock of the plain, declares the Lord; you who say, ‘Who shall come down against us, or who shall enter our habitations?’

Jeremiah 37:9

Thus says the Lord, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go away.

Jeremiah 48:28

“Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, O inhabitants of Moab! Be like the dove that nests in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.

Genesis 36:8

So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. (Esau is Edom.)

Ezekiel 28:16

In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.