Obadiah 1:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

You should not have stood at the crossroads to cut off those among them who escaped; nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained in the day of distress.

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  • Gen 35:3 : 3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
  • Ps 31:8 : 8 And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place.
  • Isa 37:3 : 3 And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.
  • Jer 30:7 : 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
  • Amos 1:6 : 6 Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
  • Amos 1:9 : 9 Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and did not remember the brotherly covenant:
  • Obad 1:12 : 12 But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother in the day of his calamity; nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

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    86%

    11In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were as one of them.

    12But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother in the day of his calamity; nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

    13You should not have entered the gate of My people in the day of their calamity; indeed, you should not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity.

  • Obad 1:15
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    15For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations: as you have done, it shall be done to you; your recompense shall return upon your own head.

  • Isa 10:2-3
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    75%

    2To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

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  • Isa 14:20
    74%

    20You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the seed of evildoers will never be renowned.

  • Prov 24:11
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    11If you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death, and those ready to be slain;

  • Amos 2:14-16
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    14Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not reinforce his strength, neither shall the mighty save himself:

    15Neither shall he stand that handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself: neither shall he who rides the horse save himself.

    16And he who is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says the LORD.

  • Lam 2:21-22
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    73%

    21The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have killed, and not pitied.

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    1Woe to you who plunder, though you were not plundered; and who deal treacherously, though they did not deal treacherously with you! When you cease to plunder, you will be plundered; when you stop dealing treacherously, they will deal treacherously with you.

  • Ezek 13:5
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    5You have not gone up into the gaps nor built a hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the LORD.

  • Jer 5:10
    72%

    10Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but do not make a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.

  • Zech 14:1
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    1Behold, the day of the LORD comes, and your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you.

  • Mic 1:11
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    11Pass away, you inhabitant of Saphir, in naked shame: the inhabitant of Zaanan did not go out in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive from you his standing.

  • Obad 1:5
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    5If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you are cut off!—would they not have stolen till they had enough? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes?

  • Nah 1:15
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    15Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace! O Judah, keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows; for the wicked shall no longer pass through you; he is utterly cut off.

  • Job 36:17
    71%

    17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

  • Mic 6:14
    71%

    14You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword.

  • Mic 2:3
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    3Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, against this family I devise an evil from which you shall not remove your necks; neither shall you go haughtily, for this time is evil.

  • Amos 6:3
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    3You who put far away the evil day, and bring near the seat of violence;

  • 1 Sam 24:13
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    13As says the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness comes from the wicked: but my hand shall not be upon you.

  • Amos 9:10
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    10All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

  • 2 Kgs 14:10
    71%

    10You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up; boast of this, and stay at home, for why should you meddle to your hurt, that you should fall, you and Judah with you?

  • Isa 31:2
    71%

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  • Hab 2:10
    71%

    10You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul.

  • Zeph 3:11
    71%

    11In that day you shall not be ashamed for all your deeds, wherein you have transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of you those that rejoice in your pride, and you shall no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; do not spoil his resting place.

  • Isa 47:15
    71%

    15Thus shall they be to you with whom you have labored, your merchants from your youth; they shall wander each one to his own quarter; none shall save you.

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    43You have also turned the edge of his sword, and have not sustained him in the battle.

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    71%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

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    71%

    11Therefore evil shall come upon you; you shall not know from where it rises. Trouble shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off. Desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know.

  • Deut 28:29
    71%

    29And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and plundered evermore, and no man shall save you.

  • Jer 51:50
    71%

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  • Jer 22:3
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    70%

    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

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