Obadiah 1:14

World English Bible (2000)

Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 35:3 : 3 Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. 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 You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
  • Isa 37:3 : 3 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; 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 Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried away captive the whole community, to deliver them up to Edom;
  • Amos 1:9 : 9 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole community to Edom, and didn't remember the brotherly covenant;
  • Obad 1:12 : 12 But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress.

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