My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.*
Obadiah 1:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,* says the LORD. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Though you mount on high as the eagle and though you set your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though thy nest be set among the stars, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible Though you soar like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version Though you have been lifted high like an eagle, and though you have placed your nest among the stars, from there I will pull you down, says the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord. |
My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.*
As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.
Though Bavel should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says the LORD.
Though they dig into She'ol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!