Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Obadiah 1:4

Context
NETBible

Even if you were to soar high like an eagle, 1  even if you 2  were to make your nest among the stars, I can bring you down even from there!” says the Lord.

XREF

Job 20:6,7; Job 39:27,28; Isa 14:12-15; Jer 49:16; Jer 51:53; Am 9:2; Hab 2:9

NET © Notes

sn The eagle was often used in the ancient Near East as a symbol of strength and swiftness.

tc The present translation follows the reading תָּשִׂים (tasim; active) rather than שִׁים (sim; passive) of the MT (“and your nest be set among the stars,” NAB). Cf. LXX, Syriac, Vg.



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