Obadiah 1:2

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Behold, I have made you small among the nations; you are utterly despised.

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  • Num 24:18 : 18 Edom will become a possession; Seir, his enemy, will also be a possession. But Israel will grow strong.
  • Isa 23:9 : 9 The LORD of Hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all glory, to humble all who are honored on the earth.
  • Ezek 29:15 : 15 It will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the nations. I will diminish them so that they will not rule over the nations anymore.
  • Mic 7:10 : 10 Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, 'Where is the LORD your God?' My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like mud in the streets.
  • Luke 1:51-52 : 51 He has shown strength with His arm; He has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. 52 He has brought down rulers from their thrones and exalted the humble.
  • 1 Sam 2:7-8 : 7 'The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He humbles and He exalts.' 8 'He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap to sit with nobles and inherit a seat of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s; upon them He has set the world.'
  • Job 34:25-29 : 25 Because He knows their deeds, He overturns them in the night, and they are crushed. 26 He strikes them down for their wickedness in a place where all can see. 27 Because they turned away from following Him and did not regard any of His ways, 28 He causes the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He hears the cry of the afflicted. 29 When He gives quietness, who can condemn? When He hides His face, who can behold Him? Yet He watches over both nation and man alike.
  • Ps 107:39-40 : 39 Yet they were diminished and brought low through oppression, calamity, and sorrow. 40 He pours out contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 49:15-17
    3 verses
    85%

    15Look, I have made you small among the nations, despised among mankind.

    16The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, holding the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.

    17Edom will become a desolation; everyone who passes by her will be appalled and hiss because of all her wounds.

  • Obad 1:1
    81%

    1This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says concerning Edom—We have heard a message from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up, and let us rise against her for battle."

  • Obad 1:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; you say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?"

    4Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.

  • Mal 1:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    3but Esau I have hated. I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and given his inheritance to the wild creatures of the desert.

    4Though Edom may say, 'We have been destroyed, but we will rebuild the ruins,' this is what the LORD of Hosts says: They may rebuild, but I will tear it down. They will be called 'The Wicked Land,' and 'The people the LORD is angry with forever.'

    5Your own eyes will see it, and you will say, 'The LORD is great—even beyond the borders of Israel!'

  • Jer 49:20
    72%

    20Therefore, hear the counsel of the LORD that he has planned against Edom, and his purposes that he has devised against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; he will make their pasture desolate because of them.

  • Ezek 25:12-14
    3 verses
    72%

    12This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because Edom acted in revenge against the house of Judah and committed great guilt by taking vengeance on them,

    13Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off both man and beast from it. I will make it a wasteland from Teman to Dedan, and they will fall by the sword.

    14I will take my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to my anger and my wrath. Then they will know my vengeance, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Isa 60:15
    71%

    15Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy of all generations.

  • Ezek 5:14
    71%

    14I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

  • 2 Chr 25:19
    71%

    19You say to yourself that you have defeated Edom, and now you are arrogant and proud. But stay at home! Why provoke disaster so that you and Judah will fall?

  • Ezek 35:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14This is what the Sovereign LORD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

    15As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel when it became desolate, so will I deal with you. You will become a desolation, Mount Seir, along with all of Edom—all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Obad 1:7-11
    5 verses
    71%

    7All your allies have driven you to your border; those at peace with you have deceived you; they have prevailed against you. Those who eat your bread have set a trap under you—there is no understanding in him.

    8Will I not, on that day, declares the LORD, destroy the wise men from Edom and understanding from the mountain of Esau?

    9Your warriors, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone from the mountain of Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

    10Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

    11On the day you stood aloof, on the day strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.

  • Ezek 36:5
    71%

    5Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in my burning zeal I have spoken against the remnants of the nations and against Edom, who with glee and utter contempt claimed my land as their own possession, plundering its pasturelands.

  • Ezek 36:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! Even the ancient high places have become ours as a possession,’

    3therefore, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have devastated and surrounded you, making you a possession for the remnants of the nations, and because you have become the object of people’s talk and gossip,’

  • Lam 3:45
    71%

    45You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

  • Nah 1:14
    70%

    14The Lord has given a command concerning you, Nineveh: 'Your name will no longer be perpetuated. Out of the house of your gods I will destroy the carved image and the cast idol. I will prepare your grave, for you are vile.'

  • Jer 49:10
    70%

    10But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he cannot hide. His descendants, brothers, and neighbors are destroyed, and he is no more.

  • Isa 37:22-23
    2 verses
    70%

    22this is the word the LORD has spoken against him: 'The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head as you flee.

    23Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

  • Zeph 2:10
    70%

    10This will be their lot in return for their pride, because they have taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of Hosts.

  • 2 Kgs 14:10
    70%

    10You have indeed defeated Edom, and now you are arrogant. Be content with your glory and stay at home. Why bring disaster on yourself and Judah as well?'

  • Jer 6:27
    70%

    27I have made you a tester of metals among my people, that you may observe and test their ways.

  • 2 Kgs 19:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: 'The Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head at you as you flee.'

    22Whom have you mocked and insulted? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in arrogance? It is against the Holy One of Israel!

  • Zeph 3:11
    69%

    11On that day, you will not be ashamed of all your deeds by which you rebelled against me. For then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty on my holy mountain.

  • Jer 50:31
    69%

    31Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one, declares the Sovereign LORD of Hosts, for your day has come, the time for Me to punish you.

  • 1 Sam 2:30
    69%

    30Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: I certainly said that your house and your father’s house would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For those who honor Me I will honor, but those who despise Me will be disdained.

  • Ezek 35:10
    69%

    10Because you said, 'These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will take possession of them,' even though the LORD was there,

  • Lam 2:17
    69%

    17The LORD has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his word that he decreed long ago. He has overthrown without pity; he has let the enemy gloat over you and exalt the horn of your adversaries.

  • Lam 2:2
    69%

    2The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. In his wrath, he has torn down the fortresses of the daughter of Judah, bringing them down to the ground. He has defiled her kingdom and its rulers.

  • Zeph 2:8
    69%

    8I have heard the taunts of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have reproached My people and enlarged their borders.

  • Ezek 22:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4You have become guilty because of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you made. You have brought your days near and have come to the end of your years. Therefore, I have made you a disgrace to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.

    5Those near and those far from you will mock you, you who are defiled in name and full of turmoil.

  • Num 23:9
    69%

    9For from the top of the rocks I see them, from the hills I behold them; they are a people who live apart and do not consider themselves among the nations.

  • Jer 48:27
    69%

    27Was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you speak of him you wag your head in scorn?

  • Amos 1:11
    69%

    11Thus says the LORD: 'For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and suppressed compassion. His anger tore continually, and his wrath remained forever.'

  • Amos 9:12
    68%

    12So that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by My name, declares the Lord who does this.

  • Jer 49:8
    68%

    8Flee! Turn back! Hide deep in the caves, O inhabitants of Dedan, for I will bring calamity upon Esau at the time of my punishment.