Obadiah 4
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4 Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
though your nest is set among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,
says the Lord.(A)
Habakkuk 2:9
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9 “Alas for you who get evil gain for your house,
setting your nest on high
to be safe from the reach of harm!”(A)
Job 20:6-7
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6 Even though they mount up high as the heavens
and their head reaches to the clouds,(A)
7 they will perish forever like their own dung;
those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’
Amos 9:2
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2 Though they dig into Sheol,
from there shall my hand take them;
though they climb up to heaven,
from there I will bring them down.(A)
Isaiah 14:12-15
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12 How you are fallen from heaven,
O Morning Star, son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!(A)
13 You said to yourself,
“I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
on the heights of Zaphon;[a](B)
14 I will ascend to the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”(C)
15 But you are brought down to Sheol,
to the depths of the Pit.(D)
Footnotes
- 14.13 Or assembly in the far north
Jeremiah 51:53
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53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven,
and though she should fortify her strong height,
from me destroyers would come upon her,
says the Lord.(A)
Jeremiah 49:16
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16 The terror you inspire
and the pride of your heart have deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,[a]
who hold the height of the hill.
Although you make your nest as high as the eagle’s,
from there I will bring you down,
says the Lord.(A)
Footnotes
- 49.16 Or of Sela
Job 39:27-28
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27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
and makes its nest on high?(A)
28 It lives on the rock and makes its home
in the fastness of the rocky crag.
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