Obadiah 1:5

God's Word

“If thieves or looters come to you during the night, won’t they steal only until they’ve had enough? You will be ruined! If people come to pick your grapes, won’t they leave a few grapes behind?

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:19

“Your glory, Israel, lies dead on your hills. See how the mighty have fallen!

Isaiah 14:12

How you have fallen from heaven, you morning star, son of the dawn! How you have been cut down to the ground, you conqueror of nations!

Isaiah 17:6

Only a few people will survive. They will be like an olive tree that has been beaten. Only two or three olives are left at the top of the highest branch, four or five olives on the rest of the branches,” declares the Lord God of Israel.

Isaiah 24:13

That is the way it will be on earth among the nations. They will be like an olive tree which has been shaken or like what’s left after the grape harvest.

Jeremiah 49:9

If people come to pick your grapes, won’t they leave a few grapes behind? If thieves come during the night, won’t they steal only until they’ve had enough?

Jeremiah 50:23

The hammer of the whole earth is broken and shattered. See how desolate Babylon is of all the nations!

Jeremiah 6:9

This is what the Lord of Armies says: Thoroughly pick through the faithful few of Israel like someone picks through a grapevine. Like someone picking grapes, pass your hand over its branches again.

Lamentations 1:1

“Look how deserted Jerusalem is! Once the city was crowded with people. Once it was important among the nations. Now it is a widow. Once it was a princess among the provinces. Now it does forced labor.

Obadiah 1:9

“Teman, your warriors will be terrified. Everyone on Esau’s mountain will be slaughtered.

Micah 7:1

Poor me! I am like those gathering summer fruit, like those picking grapes. But there aren’t any grapes to eat or any ripened figs that I crave.

Zephaniah 2:15

Is this the arrogant city? Is this the city that used to live securely, the city that used to think to itself, “I’m the only one, and no one else exists but me”? What a wasteland it is now, a resting place for wild animals! All who pass by it will hiss and make an obscene gesture.

Deuteronomy 24:21

When you pick the grapes in your vineyard, don’t pick all of them. Leave some for foreigners, orphans, and widows.

Revelation 18:10

Frightened by her torture, they will stand far away and say, ‘How horrible, how horrible it is for that important city, the powerful city Babylon! In one moment judgment has come to it!’