Obadiah 1:5

Modern English Version

If thieves came to you, if robbers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only what they want? If grape gatherers come to you, would they not leave gleanings?

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:19

Your splendor, O Israel, has been slain upon your hills. How the mighty ones have fallen.

Isaiah 14:12

How are you fallen from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weaken the nations!

Isaiah 17:6

Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in its outmost fruitful branches, says the Lord God of Israel.

Isaiah 24:13

For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.

Jeremiah 49:9

If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves came by night, they would destroy until they had enough.

Jeremiah 50:23

How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut asunder and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

Jeremiah 6:9

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine. Turn back your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.

Lamentations 1:1

How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How she has become like a widow, who was once great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!

Obadiah 1:9

Your mighty men shall be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone from Mount Esau will be cut off.

Micah 7:1

Woe is me! Because I am as the gathering of summer fruit, as the gleaning of grapes; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that my soul desires.

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How has she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and shake his fist.

Deuteronomy 24:21

When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it again. It will be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Revelation 18:10

Standing far off for the fear of her torment, they will say: ‘Alas, alas for that great city, that mighty city, Babylon! In one hour your judgment has come.’