Obadiah 1:5

New Revised Standard Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:19

Your glory, O Israel, lies slain upon your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

Isaiah 14:12

How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!

Isaiah 17:6

Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten— two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, says the Lord God of Israel.

Isaiah 24:13

For thus it shall be on the earth and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is ended.

Jeremiah 49:9

If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, even they would pillage only what they wanted.

Jeremiah 50:23

How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

Jeremiah 6:9

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape-gatherer, pass your hand again over its branches.

Lamentations 1:1

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

Obadiah 1:9

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

Micah 7:1

Woe is me! For I have become like one who, after the summer fruit has been gathered, after the vintage has been gleaned, finds no cluster to eat; there is no first-ripe fig for which I hunger.

Zephaniah 2:15

Is this the exultant city that lived secure, that said to itself, “I am, and there is no one else”? What a desolation it has become, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by it hisses and shakes the fist.

Deuteronomy 24:21

When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not glean what is left; it shall be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow.

Revelation 18:10

they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, “Alas, alas, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.”