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Obadiah 1:2
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Look, I will make you insignificantamong the nations;you will be deeply despised.
Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.
Behold, I haue made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.
Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.
Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.
"Behold, I will make you small among the nations; You are greatly despised.
"Soon I will make you the smallest of nations. You will be greatly hated by everyone.
"Behold [Edom], I shall [humiliate you and] make you small among the nations; You are greatly despised.
Beholde, I haue made thee smal among the heathen: thou art vtterly despised.
"Behold, I will make you small among the nations; You are greatly despised.
"Behold, I will make you small among the nations;You are greatly despised.
"Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.
The Lord said to Edom: I will make you the weakest and most despised nation.
"I am making you the least of all nations, you will be beneath contempt.
Behold, I have made thee small among the nations; thou art greatly despised.
"Edom, I will make you the smallest nation. Everyone will hate you very much.
Behold, I have made you the least among the nations; you are greatly despised.
The Lord says to Edom, "I will make you weak; everyone will despise you.
"Look, I will make you insignificant among the nations. You will be utterly despised!
Behold, I have given you to be small among the nations; you are greatly despised.
Behold, I have made thee small among the nations: thou art greatly despised.
See, I have made you small among the nations: you are much looked down on.
Behold, I make thee small among the nations; thou art greatly despised.
Behold, I haue made thee smal among the heathen, thou art vtterly despised.
Arise ye, and let us rise up against her to war.
Behold, I have made thee small among the nations: thou art greatly despised.
Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.
Lo! Y yaf thee litil in hethene men, thou art ful myche `worthi to be dispisid.
Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.
The Lord says, "Look! I will make you a weak nation; you will be greatly despised!
"Behold, I will make you small among the nations; You shall be greatly despised.
The Lord says to Edom, "I will cut you down to size among the nations; you will be greatly despised.
"I will make you small among the nations. Everyone will hate you.
I will surely make you least among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.
Lo! small, have I made thee, among the nations - Despised art thou exceedingly!
Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art exceeding contemptible.
Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
Lo, little I have made thee among nations, Despised [art] thou exceedingly.
Beholde, I will make ye small amoge the Heithen, so that thou shalt be vtterly despised.
"Listen to this, Edom: I'm turning you to a no-account, the runt of the godless nations, despised. You thought you were so great, perched high among the rocks, king of the mountain, Thinking to yourself, ‘Nobody can get to me! Nobody can touch me!' Think again. Even if, like an eagle, you hang out on a high cliff-face, Even if you build your nest in the stars, I'll bring you down to earth." God 's sure Word.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Numbers 24:18, 1 Samuel 2:7, 1 Samuel 2:8, Job 34:25-29, Psalms 107:39, Psalms 107:40, Isaiah 23:9, Ezekiel 29:15, Micah 7:10, Luke 1:51, Luke 1:52
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 49:15 - General Ezekiel 32:29 - Edom
Cross-References
And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:
He stretches out the north over empty space, And hangs the earth on nothing.
Look, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?
By the word of Yahweh were the heavens made, And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
For thus says Yahweh that created the heavens, the God that formed the earth and made it, that established it and did not create it a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am Yahweh; and there is no other.
She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold, I have made thee small among the Heathen,.... Or "a little one", or "thing" o; their number few, and their country not large, as Aben Ezra, especially in comparison of other nations; and therefore had no reason to be so proud, insolent, and secure, as they are afterwards said to be; or rather, "I will make thee"; the past for the future, after the prophetic manner, as Kimchi; that is weak and feeble, as the Targum; reduce their numbers, destroy their towns and cities, and bring them into a low and miserable condition: or the sense is, that he would make them look little, mean, and abject, in the sight of their enemies who would conclude, upon a view of them, that they should have no trouble in subduing them, and therefore should attack them without fear, and as sure of success:
thou art greatly despised; in the eyes of the nations round about; by their enemies, who looked upon them with contempt, because of the smallness of their number, their defenceless state and want of strength to support and defend themselves; see Jeremiah 49:15; had so the pope of Rome is little and despicable in the eyes of the monarchs of the earth; and the antichristian Edom will be more so at the time of its general ruin.
o קטן "parvium", V. L.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Behold, I have made thee small - God, having declared His future judgments upon Edom, assigns the first ground of those judgments. Pride was the root of Edom’s sin, then envy; then followed exultation at his brother’s fall, hard-heartedness and bloodshed. All this was against the disposition of God’s Providence for him. God had made him small, in numbers, in honor, in territory. Edom was a wild mountain people. It was strongly guarded in the rock-girt dwelling, which God had assigned it. Like the Swiss or the Tyrolese of old, or the inhabitants of Mount Caucasus now, it had strength for resistance through the advantages of its situation, not for aggression, unless it were that of a robber-horde. But lowness, as people use it, is the mother either of lowliness or pride. A low estate, acquiesced in by the grace of God, is the parent of lowliness; when rebelled against, it generates a greater intensity of pride than greatness, because that pride is against nature itself and God’s appointment. The pride of human greatness, sinful as it is, is allied to a natural nobility of character. Copying pervertedly the greatness of God, the soul, when it receives the Spirit of God, casts off the slough, and retains its nobility transfigured by grace. The conceit of littleness has the hideousness of those monstrous combinations, the more hideous, because unnatural, not a corruption only but a distortion of nature. Edom never attempted anything of moment by itself. “Thou art greatly despised.” Weakness, in itself, is neither despicable nor “despised.” It is despised only, when it vaunts itself to be, what it is not. God tells Edom what, amid its pride, it was in itself, “despicable;” what it would thereafter be, “despised” .
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Obadiah 1:2. I have made thee small among the heathen — God ever attributes to himself the rise and fall of nations. If they be great and prosperous, it is by God's providence; if they be low and depressed, it is by his justice. Compared with the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Syrians, Arabs, and other neighbouring nations, the Idumeans were a small people.
