Obadiah 1:5 ““If thieves came to you, if robbers by night— oh, how you will be ruin…”

Obadiah 1:5

“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night— oh, how you will be ruined— would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?

World English Bible

“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?

American Standard Version

If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night (how art thou cut off!), would they not steal only till they had enough? if grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?

Geneva Bible 1599

Came theeues to thee or robbers by night? howe wast thou brought to silence? woulde they not haue stolen, til they had ynough? if the grape gatherers came to thee, woulde they not leaue some grapes?

Darby Translation

If thieves had come to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen [till] they had had enough? If grape-gatherers had come to thee, would they not have left some gleanings?

Young's Literal Translation

If thieves have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings?

Bible in Basic English

If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?

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Cross references

“if robbers”

Jeremiah 49:9

Jeremiah 49:9 · BSB

If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?

“how”

2 Samuel 1:19 Lamentations 1:1 Isaiah 14:12 Jeremiah 50:23 Zephaniah 2:15 Revelation 18:10

2 Samuel 1:19 · BSB

“Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!

Lamentations 1:1 · BSB

How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.

Isaiah 14:12 · BSB

How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

Jeremiah 50:23 · BSB

How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Zephaniah 2:15 · BSB

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Revelation 18:10 · BSB

In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”

“if the”

Deuteronomy 24:21 Isaiah 17:6 Isaiah 24:13 Micah 7:1

Deuteronomy 24:21 · BSB

When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

Isaiah 17:6 · BSB

Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten— two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 24:13 · BSB

So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

Micah 7:1 · BSB

Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

6But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!

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