Obadiah 1:5

New American Bible - revised edition

If thieves came to you, robbers by night —how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal merely till they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:19

Alas! the glory of Israel, slain upon your heights! How can the warriors have fallen!

Isaiah 14:12

How you have fallen from the heavens, O Morning Star, son of the dawn! How you have been cut down to the earth, you who conquered nations!

Isaiah 17:6

Only gleanings shall be left in it, as when an olive tree has been beaten— Two or three olives at the very top, four or five on its most fruitful branches— oracle of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 24:13

For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth, among the peoples, As when an olive tree has been beaten, as with a gleaning when the vintage is done.

Jeremiah 49:9

If vintagers came upon you, they would leave no gleanings; If thieves by night, they would destroy as they pleased.

Jeremiah 50:23

How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut off and broken! What an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Jeremiah 6:9

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Glean, glean like a vine the remnant of Israel; Pass your hand, like a vintager, repeatedly over the tendrils.

Lamentations 1:1

How solitary sits the city, once filled with people. She who was great among the nations is now like a widow. Once a princess among the provinces, now a toiling slave.

Obadiah 1:9

Teman, your warriors will be terror-stricken, so that everyone on Mount Esau will be cut down.

Micah 7:1

Woe is me! I am like the one who gathers summer fruit, when the vines have been gleaned; There is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

Zephaniah 2:15

Is this the exultant city that dwelt secure, That told itself, “I and there is no one else”? How it has become a waste, a lair for wild animals! Those who pass by it hiss, and shake their fists!

Deuteronomy 24:21

When you pick your grapes, you shall not go over the vineyard a second time; let what remains be for the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow.

Revelation 18:10

They will keep their distance for fear of the torment inflicted on her, and they will say: “Alas, alas, great city, Babylon, mighty city. In one hour your judgment has come.”