Obaja 1:5

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Jika malam-malam pencuri atau perampok datang kepadamu--betapa engkau dibinasakannya--bukankah mereka akan mencuri seberapa yang diperlukannya? Jika pemetik buah anggur datang kepadamu, bukankah mereka akan meninggalkan sisa-sisa pemetikannya?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Jika malam-malam pencuri atau perampok datang kepadamu--betapa engkau dibinasakannya--bukankah mereka akan mencuri seberapa yang diperlukannya? Jika pemetik buah anggur datang kepadamu, bukankah mereka akan meninggalkan sisa-sisa pemetikannya?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Jikalau kiranya pencuri atau penyamun pada malam sudah datang kepadamu (wah, bagaimana sudah rusak engkau!), bukankah dicurinya seberapa banyak cukup padanya? Dan jikalau kiranya orang pemungut buah anggur sudah datang kepadamu, bukankah ditinggalkannya beberapa buah sisanya?

Contextual Overview

¹ The vision of Abdi, thus sayth the lord God against Edom: We haue hearde a rumor from the Lorde, & an ambassadour is sent among the heathen: arise, and let vs ryse vp against her to battayle. ² Behold, I haue made thee smal among the heathen, thou art vtterly despised. ³ The pride of thyne heart hath deceaued thee, thou that dwellest in the cleftes of the rockes, whose habitation [is] hie, that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me downe to the grounde? ⁴ Yea though thou exalt thy selfe as the egle, and make they nest among the starres, thence wil I bring thee downe, sayth the Lorde. ⁵ Came theeues to thee, or robbers by night? how wast thou brought to silence? woulde they not haue stollen till they had inough? If the grape gatherers came to thee, woulde they not leaue [some] grapes? ⁶ Howe are the thinges of Esau sought vp, [and] his treasures searched? ⁷ All the men of thy confederacie haue driuen thee to the borders, the men that were at peace with thee haue deceaued thee, and preuailed against thee, [they that eate] thy bread haue layd a wounde vnder thee, there is none vnderstanding in him. ⁸ Shal not I in that day, saide the lord, euen destroy the wise men out of Edom, and vnderstanding from the mount of Esau? ⁹ And thy strong men O Theman shalbe afraid: because euery one of the mout of Esau shalbe cut of by slaughter.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

if robbers: Jeremiah 49:9

how: 2 Samuel 1:19, Isaiah 14:12, Jeremiah 50:23, Lamentations 1:1, Zephaniah 2:15, Revelation 18:10

if the: Deuteronomy 24:21, Isaiah 17:6, Isaiah 24:13, Micah 7:1

some grapes: or, gleanings

Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:10 - glean Judges 6:4 - left no Jeremiah 6:9 - They shall Jeremiah 49:4 - Who Ezekiel 26:17 - How art

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament the heauen: and the euenyng and the mornyng were the seconde day.

Genesis 1:13
And God sawe that it was good. And the euenyng and the mornyng were the thirde day.

Genesis 1:19
And the euenyng and the mornyng were the fourth day.

Genesis 1:23
And the euenyng and mornyng were the fift day.

Genesis 1:31
And God sawe euery thyng that he had made: and beholde, it was exceedyng good. And the euenyng & the mornyng were the sixth day.

Genesis 8:22
Yet therefore shall not sowyng tyme and haruest, colde and heate, sommer and wynter, day and nyght, ceasse all the dayes of the earth.

Psalms 19:2
A day occasioneth talke therof vnto a day: and a night teacheth knoweledge vnto a nyght.

Psalms 74:16
The day is thine, & the nyght is thine: thou hast prepared the light & the sunne.

Psalms 104:20
Thou makest darknes and it is night: wherein all the beastes of the forrest do go abrode.

Isaiah 45:7
It is I that created light and darknesse, I make peace and trouble: yea euen I the Lorde do all these thinges.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night,.... Whether the one came by day, and the other by night, or both by night, the same being meant by different words, whose intent is to plunder and steal, and carry off what they can; thy condition would not be worse, nor so bad as now it is: for

how art thou cut off! from being a nation, wholly destroyed; thy people killed, or carried captive; thy fortresses demolished, towns and cities levelled with the ground, and all thy wealth and substance carried off, and nothing left: these are either the words of God, or of the prophet, setting forth their utter ruin, as if it was already; or of the nations round about, wondering at their sudden destruction. Some render it, "how silent art thou!" q that is, under all these calamities: or, "how art thou asleep!" or "stupefied!" as the Targum and Jarchi; not to be upon thy guard against the incursions of the enemy, but careless, secure, and stupid, and now stripped of everything: had common thieves and robbers broke in upon thee,

would they not have stolen till they had enough? as much as they came for, or could carry off; they seldom strip a house into which they enter of everything in it; they come for some particular things, and, meeting with them, they go off, and leave the rest:

if the grape gatherers come to thee, would they not leave [some] grapes? that is, if men should come into thy vineyards, and gather the grapes, and carry them off by force or stealth, would they take them all a way? doubtless they would leave some behind; some would be hid under the boughs, and be left unobserved by them: or the allusion is to gatherers of grapes, who gather them for the owners, and at their direction, who were wont to leave some clusters for the poor to glean after them; but in the case of Edom it is suggested that nothing should be left, all should be clean carried off; the destruction would he complete and entire. The Targum is,

"if spoilers as grape gatherers should come unto thee, c.''

see Jeremiah 49:9.

q איך נדמיתה "quomodo redactus es in silentium?" Calvin "quomodo siles?" some in Tarnovius; so Syr.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If thieves came to thee - The prophet describes their future punishment, by contrast with that which, as a marauding people, they well knew. Thieves and robbers spoil only for their petty end. They take what comes to hand; what they can, they carry off shortness of time, difficulty of transport, necessity of providing for a retreat, limit their plunder. When they have gorged themselves, they depart. “Their” plunder is limited. The “grape-gatherer” leaves gleanings. God promises to His own people, under the same image, that they should have a remnant left Isaiah 17:6; Isaiah 24:13. “Gleaning grapes shall be left in it.” It shall be, “as gleaning grapes, when the vintage is done.” The prophet anticipates the contrast by a burst of sympathy. In the name of God, he mourns over the destruction which he fore-announces. He laments over the destruction, even of the deadly enemy of his people. “How art thou destroyed!” So the men of God are accustomed to express their amazement at the greatness of the destruction of the ungodly Psalms 73:19. “How are they brought into desolation as in a moment!” Isaiah 14:4, Isaiah 14:12. “How hath the oppressor ceased! How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!” Jeremiah 50:23. “How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!” Jeremiah 51:41. “How is Sheshach taken! How is the praise of the whole earth surprised.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Obadiah 1:5. If thieves came to thee — That is, if thieves entered thy dwellings, they would not have taken every thing; they would have laid hold on thy wealth; and carried off as much as they could escape with conveniently; if grape-gatherers entered thy vineyards, they would not have taken every bunch; some gleanings would have been left. But the Chaldeans have stripped thee bare; they have searched out all thy hidden things, Obadiah 1:6, they have left thee nothing. Hour art thou cut off! Thou art totally and irretrievably ruined! The prophet speaks of this desolation as if it had already taken place.