Obadiah 1:4
World English Bible (WEB)
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.
In context
2 Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
4 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.
5 “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?
6 How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!
Obadiah 1:4 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- 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.
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith Jehovah.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Though thou shalt exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou shalt set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.