Obadiah 1:8

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

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  • Isa 29:14 : 14 Therefore, I will again do extraordinary things with this people, with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of their wise will perish, and the understanding of their discerning will vanish.
  • Job 5:12-14 : 12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands achieve no success. 13 He traps the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the twisted are quickly foiled. 14 They encounter darkness by day and grope in the noonday as if it were night.
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations; He thwarts the plans of the peoples.
  • Isa 19:3 : 3 The spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied from within them, and I will confound their plans. They will seek idols, mediums, spirits, and fortune-tellers.
  • Isa 19:13-14 : 13 The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. They have led Egypt astray, the cornerstone of its tribes. 14 The LORD has mixed within her a spirit of confusion, and they have led Egypt astray in all that it does, like a drunkard staggering in his vomit.
  • 1 Cor 3:19-20 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written, 'He catches the wise in their craftiness.' 20 And again, 'The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Obad 1:9-10
    2 verses
    86%

    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.

  • Jer 49:7-8
    2 verses
    82%

    7Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom become corrupted?

    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.

  • Obad 1:6-7
    2 verses
    81%

    6How Esau has been pillaged; his hidden treasures sought out!

    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.

  • Mal 1:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    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.'

  • Ezek 25:12-14
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Jer 49:16-20
    5 verses
    76%

    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.

    18As with the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, says the LORD, no one will live there; no human being will stay in it.

    19Look, like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Jordan to a permanent pasture, I will suddenly chase Edom from its land, and I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For who is like me, and who can summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?

    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.

  • Jer 49:10
    76%

    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.

  • Amos 1:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    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.'

    12So I will send fire upon Teman, and it will consume the palaces of Bozrah.

  • Obad 1:18
    75%

    18The house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame; the house of Esau will be stubble. They will set it on fire and consume it. There will be no survivors from the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.

  • Ezek 35:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Jer 8:9
    74%

    9The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

  • Obad 1:21
    73%

    21Deliverers will go up on Mount Zion to govern the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will belong to the LORD.

  • Jer 9:12
    73%

    12And the Lord said, 'It is because they have forsaken my law that I set before them; they have not obeyed My voice or walked according to it.'

  • Num 24:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18Edom will become a possession; Seir, his enemy, will also be a possession. But Israel will grow strong.

    19A ruler will come out of Jacob and will destroy the survivors of the city.

  • Amos 9:8
    73%

    8'Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet, I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,' declares the Lord.

  • Obad 1:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    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."

    2Behold, I have made you small among the nations; you are utterly despised.

  • Ezek 35:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate waste and cut off from it all who come and go.

    8I will fill your mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

  • 1 Cor 1:19
    71%

    19For it is written, 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of the intelligent I will frustrate.'

  • Isa 29:14
    71%

    14Therefore, I will again do extraordinary things with this people, with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of their wise will perish, and the understanding of their discerning will vanish.

  • Isa 31:2
    71%

    2Yet He is wise and brings disaster; He does not take back His words. He will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who practice wickedness.

  • Amos 9:12
    71%

    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.

  • Ezek 28:7
    71%

    7therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.

  • Zeph 1:18
    70%

    18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to rescue them on the day of the Lord's wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy, for He will bring a sudden and complete destruction on all the inhabitants of the earth.

  • Exod 15:15
    70%

    15The chiefs of Edom are dismayed; the leaders of Moab tremble; the inhabitants of Canaan melt away.

  • Amos 2:3
    70%

    3'I will cut off the ruler from its midst and kill all its officials with him,' declares the LORD.

  • Jer 49:38
    70%

    38I will set my throne in Elam and destroy their king and officials from there, declares the LORD.

  • Isa 13:9
    70%

    9See, the day of the LORD is coming—a cruel day with wrath and fierce anger—to make the land desolate and to destroy the sinners within it.

  • Ezek 36:5
    70%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 25:19
    70%

    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?

  • 2 Kgs 8:20
    70%

    20In Jehoram's time, Edom rebelled against Judah's control and set up their own king.

  • Isa 27:11
    70%

    11When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.

  • Ezek 6:3
    70%

    3Say, 'Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains, the hills, the ravines, and the valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

  • Ezek 21:31
    70%

    31This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are. Exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.

  • Isa 34:9
    70%

    9And its streams will be turned to pitch, its soil to sulfur; its land will become burning pitch.

  • Isa 34:5
    70%

    5For My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens. Behold, it will descend upon Edom, upon the people of My judgment, to bring justice.