Obadiah 1:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Num 24:18 : 18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
  • Isa 23:9 : 9 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to mar the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
  • Ezek 29:15 : 15 It shall be the lowest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself anymore above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
  • Mic 7:10 : 10 Then she who is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is the LORD your God? My eyes shall behold her; now she shall be trampled down as the mire of the streets.
  • Luke 1:51-52 : 51 He has shown strength with His arm; He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. 52 He has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted the lowly.
  • 1 Sam 2:7-8 : 7 The LORD makes poor and makes rich: he brings low and lifts up. 8 He raises up the poor from the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ashes, to set them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.
  • Job 34:25-29 : 25 Therefore He knows their works, and He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed. 26 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others, 27 Because they turned back from Him and would not consider any of His ways. 28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, and He hears the cry of the afflicted. 29 When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him? Whether it be done against a nation or against a man only.
  • Ps 107:39-40 : 39 Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. 40 He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 49:15-17
    3 verses
    85%

    15For behold, I will make you small among the nations, and despised among men.

    16Your terribleness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.

    17Also Edom shall be a desolation: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.

  • Obad 1:1
    81%

    1The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Arise, and let us rise up against her in battle.

  • Obad 1:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high; who says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

    4Though you exalt yourself like the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down, says the LORD.

  • Mal 1:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the jackals of the wilderness.

    4Though Edom says, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD has indignation forever.

    5And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, The LORD will be magnified beyond the border of Israel.

  • Jer 49:20
    72%

    20Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he will make their habitation desolate with them.

  • Ezek 25:12-14
    3 verses
    72%

    12Thus says the Lord GOD; Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;

    13Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

    14And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord GOD.

  • Isa 60:15
    71%

    15Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one went through you, I will make you an eternal excellence, a joy of many generations.

  • Ezek 5:14
    71%

    14Moreover I will make you a waste, and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

  • 2 Chr 25:19
    71%

    19You say, Lo, you have struck the Edomites; and your heart is lifted up to boast; stay now at home; why should you meddle to your hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?

  • Ezek 35:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14Thus says the Lord GOD: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

    15As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

  • Obad 1:7-11
    5 verses
    71%

    7All the men of your confederacy have driven you to the border; the men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have laid a trap under you. There is no understanding in him.

    8Shall I not in that day, says the LORD, even destroy the wise men from Edom, and understanding from the mountain of Esau?

    9And your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, so that everyone from the mountain of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

    10For your violence against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.

    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.

  • Ezek 36:5
    71%

    5Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with spiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.

  • Ezek 36:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Thus says the Lord GOD; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:

    3Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the rest of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

  • Lam 3:45
    71%

    45You have made us like refuse and scorn among the people.

  • Nah 1:14
    70%

    14And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you, that your name shall be no longer sown: out of the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the molten image; I will make your grave; for you are vile.

  • Jer 49:10
    70%

    10But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself: his descendants are spoiled, along with his brothers and his neighbors, and he is no more.

  • Isa 37:22-23
    2 verses
    70%

    22This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

    23Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

  • Zeph 2:10
    70%

    10This they shall have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

  • 2 Kgs 14:10
    70%

    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?

  • Jer 6:27
    70%

    27I have set you as a tower and a fortress among my people, that you may know and test their way.

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

    21This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

    22Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

  • Zeph 3:11
    69%

    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.

  • Jer 50:31
    69%

    31Behold, I am against you, O most proud, says the Lord GOD of hosts: for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.

  • 1 Sam 2:30
    69%

    30Therefore the LORD God of Israel says, I did indeed say that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now the LORD says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

  • Ezek 35:10
    69%

    10Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:

  • Lam 2:17
    69%

    17The Lord has done what He had planned; He has fulfilled His word that He commanded in the days of old: He has thrown down, and has not pitied: and He has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, He has exalted the strength of your adversaries.

  • Lam 2:2
    69%

    2The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in His wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground: He has defiled the kingdom and its princes.

  • Zeph 2:8
    69%

    8I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, by which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border.

  • Ezek 22:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and have defiled yourself with your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years: therefore I have made you a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

    5Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, who are infamous and much vexed.

  • Num 23:9
    69%

    9For from the top of the rocks I see him and from the hills I behold him; behold, the people shall dwell alone and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

  • Jer 48:27
    69%

    27For was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For whenever you spoke of him, you skipped for joy.

  • Amos 1:11
    69%

    11Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever:

  • Amos 9:12
    68%

    12That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the nations, which are called by my name, says the LORD who does this.

  • Jer 49:8
    68%

    8Flee, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.