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Obadiah 1:14 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. "

Obadiah 1:14

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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.

13 Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

14 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.

15 For the day of the LORD is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

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Obadiah 1:1

"The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom. We have heard news from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle."

Obadiah 1:2

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

Obadiah 1:3

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

Obadiah 1:4

"Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says the LORD."

Obadiah 1:5

"“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?"

Obadiah 1:6

"How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!"

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