Obadiah 1:3

New Century Version

Your pride has fooled you, you who live in the hollow places of the cliff. Your home is up high, you who say to yourself, ‘No one can bring me down to the ground.’

Cross References

Genesis 36:8

So Esau lived in the mountains of Edom. (Esau is also named Edom.)

2 Kings 14:7

In battle Amaziah killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He also took the city of Sela. He called it Joktheel, as it is still called today.

2 Chronicles 25:11

Then Amaziah became very brave and led his army to the Valley of Salt in the country of Edom. There Amaziah’s army killed ten thousand Edomites.

2 Chronicles 25:12

The army of Judah also captured ten thousand and took them to the top of a cliff and threw them off so that they split open.

Job 20:6

Their pride may be as high as the heavens, and their heads may touch the clouds,

Proverbs 16:18

Pride leads to destruction; a proud attitude brings ruin.

Proverbs 18:12

Proud people will be ruined, but the humble will be honored.

Proverbs 29:23

Pride will ruin people, but those who are humble will be honored.

Isaiah 16:6

We have heard that the people of Moab are proud and very conceited. They are very proud and angry, but their bragging means nothing.

Jeremiah 21:13

“ ‘Jerusalem, I am against you, you who live on top of the mountain over this valley, says the Lord. You say, “No one can attack us or come into our strong city.”

Jeremiah 37:9

“This is what the Lord says: People of Jerusalem, do not fool yourselves. Don’t say, ‘The Babylonian army will surely leave us alone.’ They will not!

Jeremiah 48:28

People in Moab, leave your towns empty and go live among the rocks. Be like a dove that makes its nest at the entrance of a cave.

Jeremiah 49:16

Edom, you frightened other nations, but your pride has fooled you. You live in the hollow places of the cliff and control the high places of the hills. Even if you build your home as high as an eagle’s nest, I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 49:4

You brag about your valleys and about the fruit in your valleys. You are like an unfaithful child who believes his treasures will save him. You think, ‘Who would attack me?’

Ezekiel 28:16

Because you traded with countries far away, you learned to be cruel, and you sinned. So I threw you down in disgrace from the mountain of God. And the living creature who guarded you forced you out from among the gems that shined like fire.

Malachi 1:4

The people of Edom might say, “We were destroyed, but we will go back and rebuild the ruins.” But the Lord All-Powerful says, “If they rebuild them, I will destroy them. People will say, ‘Edom is a wicked country. The Lord is always angry with the Edomites.’