14 You should not have stood at the crossroads
To cut off those among them who escaped;
Nor should you have [a]delivered up those among them who remained
In the day of distress.

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  1. Obadiah 1:14 Handed over to the enemy

12 “But you should not have (A)gazed[a] on the day of your brother
[b]In the day of his captivity;
Nor should you have (B)rejoiced over the children of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Nor should you have spoken proudly
In the day of distress.

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  1. Obadiah 1:12 Gloated over
  2. Obadiah 1:12 Lit. On the day he became a foreigner

Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of (A)Tyre, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom,
And did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.

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Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of (A)Gaza, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they took captive the whole captivity
To deliver them up to Edom.

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(A)Alas! For that day is great,
(B)So that none is like it;
And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble,
But he shall be saved out of it.

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And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of (A)trouble and rebuke and [a]blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth.

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  1. Isaiah 37:3 contempt

And have not (A)shut[a] me up into the hand of the enemy;
(B)You have set my feet in a wide place.

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  1. Psalm 31:8 given me over

Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, (A)who answered me in the day of my distress (B)and has been with me in the way which I have gone.”

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