Obadiah 1:18

New American Bible - revised edition

The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble. They will set it ablaze and devour it; none will survive of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:20

and said to him: “May my lord not hold me guilty; do not remember or take to heart the wrong that your servant did the day my lord the king left Jerusalem.

Exodus 5:12

The people, then, scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw,

Isaiah 10:17

The Light of Israel will become a fire, the Holy One, a flame, That burns and consumes its briers and its thorns in a single day.

Isaiah 31:9

He shall rush past his crag in panic, and his princes desert the standard in terror, Says the Lord who has a fire in Zion and a furnace in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 47:14

See, they are like stubble, fire consumes them; They cannot deliver themselves from the spreading flames. This is no warming ember, no fire to sit before!

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the tongue of fire licks up stubble, as dry grass shrivels in the flame, Their root shall rot and their blossom scatter like dust; For they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts, and scorned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 9:18

At the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land quakes, and the people are like fuel for fire; no one spares his brother.

Isaiah 9:19

They hack on the right, but remain hungry; they devour on the left, but are not filled. Each devours the flesh of the neighbor;

Jeremiah 11:23

None shall be spared among them, for I will bring disaster upon the men of Anathoth, the year of their punishment.

Ezekiel 37:16

As for you, son of man, take one stick and write on it, “Judah and those Israelites associated with it.” Then take another stick and write on it: “Joseph, Ephraim’s stick, and the whole house of Israel associated with it.”

Ezekiel 37:19

answer them: Thus says the Lord God: I will take the stick of Joseph, now in Ephraim’s hand, and the tribes of Israel associated with it, and join to it the stick of Judah, making them one stick; they shall become one in my hand.

Joel 2:5

Like the rumble of chariots they hurtle across mountaintops; Like the crackling of fiery flames devouring stubble; Like a massive army in battle formation.

Amos 1:8

From Ashdod I will cut off the one enthroned and the sceptered ruler from Ashkelon; I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the last of the Philistines shall perish, says the Lord God.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and let justice prevail at the gate; Then it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will have pity on the remnant of Joseph.

Amos 6:6

Who drink wine from bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils, but are not made ill by the collapse of Joseph;

Obadiah 1:16

As you drank upon my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink and swallow, and will become as though they had not been.

Micah 5:8

Your hand shall be lifted above your foes, and all your enemies shall be cut down.

Nahum 1:10

Like a thorny thicket, they are tangled, and like drunkards, they are drunk; like dry stubble, they are utterly consumed.

Zechariah 12:6

On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a brazier of fire in the woodland and like a burning torch among sheaves, and they will devour right and left all the surrounding peoples; but Jerusalem will again inhabit its own place.

1 Corinthians 3:12

If anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,