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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Obadiah 1:4 Catholic Bible: Even though you make your home as high as an eagle's nest, so that it seems to be among the stars, yet I will pull you down. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/obadiah/1-4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/obadiah/1-4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/obadiah/1-4.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/obadiah/1.htm">Obadiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/obadiah/1.htm">Chapter 1</a> > Verse 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../obadiah/1-3.htm" title="Obadiah 1:3">◄</a> Obadiah 1:4 {3} <a href="../obadiah/1-5.htm" title="Obadiah 1:5">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/obadiah/1.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/obadiah/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Even though you make your home as high as an eagle's nest, so that it seems to be among the stars, yet I will pull you down. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/obadiah/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/obadiah/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I will still bring you down, even if you fly higher than an eagle or nest among the stars. I, the LORD, have spoken! <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/obadiah/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Though you soar like the eagle, and your nest is set among the stars, From there I will bring you down— oracle of the LORD. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/obadiah/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest in thy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground?<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest in thy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground?</p><p class="hdg">exalt.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/20-6.htm">Job 20:6,7</a> If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/39-27.htm">Job 39:27,28</a> Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/49-16.htm">Jeremiah 49:16</a> Thy arrogancy hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy heart: O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, and endeavourest to lay hold on the height of the hill: but though thou shouldst make thy nest as high as an eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../habakkuk/2-9.htm">Habakkuk 2:9</a> Woe to him that gathereth together an evil covetousness to his house, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he may be delivered out of the hand of evil.</p><p class="hdg">among.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/14-12.htm">Isaiah 14:12-15</a> How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/51-53.htm">Jeremiah 51:53</a> If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength on high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../amos/9-2.htm">Amos 9:2</a> I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said: Strike the hinges, and let the lintels be shook: for there is covetousness in the head of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall be no flight for them: they shall flee, and he that shall flee of them shall not be delivered.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/obadiah/1.htm">The Destruction of Edom</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art exceeding contemptible. <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl">The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest in thy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground?</span><span class="reftext">5</span>Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/20-6.htm">Job 20:6</a></span><br />If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/20-7.htm">Job 20:7</a></span><br />In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/39-27.htm">Job 39:27</a></span><br />Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/10-14.htm">Isaiah 10:14</a></span><br />And my hand hath found the strength of the people as a nest; and as eggs are gathered, that are left, so have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or made the least noise.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/14-12.htm">Isaiah 14:12</a></span><br />How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/51-53.htm">Jeremiah 51:53</a></span><br />If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength on high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../amos/9-2.htm">Amos 9:2</a></span><br />I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said: Strike the hinges, and let the lintels be shook: for there is covetousness in the head of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall be no flight for them: they shall flee, and he that shall flee of them shall not be delivered.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../habakkuk/2-9.htm">Habakkuk 2:9</a></span><br />Woe to him that gathereth together an evil covetousness to his house, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he may be delivered out of the hand of evil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/amos/9-12.htm">Affirmation</a> <a href="/amos/9-14.htm">Build</a> <a href="/amos/9-13.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/hosea/8-1.htm">Eagle</a> <a href="/hosea/11-7.htm">Exalt</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-3.htm">High</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-3.htm">House</a> <a href="/amos/6-1.htm">Mount</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-16.htm">Nest</a> <a href="/daniel/7-9.htm">Placed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-22.htm">Soar</a> <a href="/amos/5-8.htm">Stars</a> <a href="/amos/9-4.htm">Thence</a> <a href="/hosea/13-10.htm">Thyself</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/obadiah/1-8.htm">Affirmation</a> <a href="/micah/3-10.htm">Build</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-8.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/micah/1-16.htm">Eagle</a> <a href="/matthew/23-12.htm">Exalt</a> <a href="/micah/1-3.htm">High</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-17.htm">House</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-8.htm">Mount</a> <a href="/habakkuk/2-9.htm">Nest</a> <a href="/micah/4-1.htm">Placed</a> <a href="/job/39-26.htm">Soar</a> <a href="/nahum/3-16.htm">Stars</a> <a href="/matthew/4-21.htm">Thence</a> <a href="/micah/1-10.htm">Thyself</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/obadiah/1-4.htm">Obadiah 1:4 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/obadiah/1-4.htm">Obadiah 1:4 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/obadiah/1-4.htm">Obadiah 1:4 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/obadiah/1-4.htm">Obadiah 1:4 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/obadiah/1-4.htm">Obadiah 1:4 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/obadiah/1-4.htm">Obadiah 1:4 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/obadiah/1-4.htm">Obadiah 1:4 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/obadiah/1-4.htm">Obadiah 1:4 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/obadiah/1-4.htm">Obadiah 1:4 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: among and bring build declares down eagle from high I like LORD make nest set soar stars the there Though will you your<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-4.htm">OT Prophets: Obadiah 1:4 Though you mount on high as (Obad. 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