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Obadiah 4

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1:4Even if you were to soar high like an eagle,18

even if you19 were to make your nest among the stars,

I can bring you down even from there!” says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 18 The eagle was often used in the ancient Near East as a symbol of strength and swiftness.
  2. 19 The present translation follows the reading תָּשִׂים (tasim; active) rather than שִׁים (sim; passive) of the (“and your nest be set among the stars,” ). Cf. , , .

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Though you soar like the eagle

and make your nest among the stars,

from there I will bring you down,”

declares the Lord.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Though you seem to soar like an eagle

and make your nest among the stars,

even from there I will bring you down.

This is the Lord’s declaration.

NLTNew Living Translation

But even if you soar as high as eagles

and build your nest among the stars,

I will bring you crashing down,”

says the Lord.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Even if you soar like the eagle, even if your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down!” declares Yahweh:

KJV 1900King James Version

Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle,

And though thou set thy nest among the stars,

Thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.