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But your pride has fooled you.
    You live in the hollow places of the cliff.
    Your home is up high.
And you say to yourself,
    ‘No one can bring me down to the ground.’
You fly high like the eagle.
    You make your nest among the stars.
    But I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.
“You will really be ruined!
It would be better if thieves come to you,
    if robbers come by night.
    They would steal only enough for themselves.
Workers come and pick the grapes from your vines.
    But they would leave a few grapes behind.

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The pride(A) of your heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rocks[a](B)
    and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
    ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’(C)
Though you soar like the eagle
    and make your nest(D) among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,”(E)
declares the Lord.(F)
“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?(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:3 Or of Sela