13 (A)“Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley,
    O rock of the plain,
declares the Lord;
you who say, (B)‘Who shall come down against us,
    or who shall enter our habitations?’

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(A)The pride of your heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rock,[a]
    in your lofty dwelling,
(B)who say in your heart,
    “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
    though your nest is set among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:3 Or of Sela

Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, (A)I am against you, declares the Lord God.

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12 (A)The kings of the earth did not believe,
    nor any of the inhabitants of the world,
that foe or enemy could enter
    the gates of Jerusalem.

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11 (A)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
    (B)its priests teach for a price;
    (C)its prophets practice divination for money;
(D)yet they lean on the Lord and (E)say,
    “Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
    (F)No disaster shall come upon us.”

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31 “Behold, I am against you, O (A)proud one,
    declares the Lord God of hosts,
(B)for your day has come,
    the time when I will punish you.

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Why do you boast of your valleys,[a]
    (A)O faithless daughter,
(B)who trusted in her treasures, saying,
    ‘Who will come against me?’
Behold, (C)I will bring terror upon you,
    declares the Lord God of hosts,
    from all who are around you,
and you shall be driven out, every man straight before him,
    with none to gather the fugitives.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:4 Hebrew boast of your valleys, your valley flows

30 (A)Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who steal my words from one another. 31 Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who use their tongues and declare, ‘declares the Lord.’ 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the Lord, and who tell them and (B)lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when (C)I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the Lord.

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As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
    so (A)the Lord surrounds his people,
    from this time forth and forevermore.

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16 The horror you inspire has deceived you,
    and the pride of your heart,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,[a]
    who hold the height of the hill.
Though you (A)make your nest as high as the eagle's,
    I will bring you down from there,
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:16 Or of Sela

I myself will fight against you (A)with outstretched hand and strong arm, (B)in anger and in fury and in great wrath.

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An Oracle Concerning Jerusalem

22 The (A)oracle concerning (B)the valley of vision.

What do you mean that you have gone up,
    all of you, to the housetops,

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(A)And the king and his men went to Jerusalem (B)against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, “You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off”—thinking, “David cannot come in here.” Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, (C)that is, the city of David.

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25 “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,
declares the Lord,
    which destroys the whole earth;
I will stretch out my hand against you,
    and roll you down from the crags,
    (A)and make you a burnt mountain.

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(A)Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

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(A)You shall tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

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20 And (A)they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.

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