Obadiah 1:3

New International Version

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

Cross References

Genesis 36:8

So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the hill country of Seir.

2 Kings 14:7

He was the one who defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and captured Sela in battle, calling it Joktheel, the name it has to this day.

2 Chronicles 25:11

Amaziah then marshaled his strength and led his army to the Valley of Salt, where he killed ten thousand men of Seir.

2 Chronicles 25:12

The army of Judah also captured ten thousand men alive, took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.

Job 20:6

Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 18:12

Before a downfall the heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

Proverbs 29:23

Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.

Isaiah 16:6

We have heard of Moab’s pride— how great is her arrogance!— of her conceit, her pride and her insolence; but her boasts are empty.

Jeremiah 21:13

I am against you, Jerusalem, you who live above this valley on the rocky plateau, declares the Lord— you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our refuge?”

Jeremiah 37:9

“This is what the Lord says: Do not deceive yourselves, thinking, ‘The Babylonians will surely leave us.’ They will not!

Jeremiah 48:28

Abandon your towns and dwell among the rocks, you who live in Moab. Be like a dove that makes its nest at the mouth of a cave.

Jeremiah 49:16

The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks, who occupy the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle’s, from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 49:4

Why do you boast of your valleys, boast of your valleys so fruitful? Unfaithful Daughter Ammon, you trust in your riches and say, ‘Who will attack me?’

Ezekiel 28:16

Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.

Malachi 1:4

Edom may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins.” But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord.