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Even though you fly high like an eagle
    and build your nest among the stars,
        I will bring you down from there,” declares Yahweh.

“If thieves or looters come to you during the night,
    won’t they steal only until they’ve had enough?
        You will be ruined!
    If people come to pick your grapes,
    won’t they leave a few grapes behind?
        But you, Esau,[a] will lose everything.
            Even your hidden treasures will be looted.

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:6 Esau was the son of Isaac and the ancestor of the people of Edom.

Though you soar like the eagle
    and make your nest(A) among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,”(B)
declares the Lord.(C)
“If thieves came to you,
    if robbers in the night—
oh, what a disaster awaits you!—
    would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
    would they not leave a few grapes?(D)
But how Esau will be ransacked,
    his hidden treasures pillaged!

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