If thieves came to you,(A)
if marauders by night—
how ravaged you would be!—
wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
wouldn’t they leave some grapes?(B)
How Esau will be pillaged,(C)
his hidden treasures searched out!(D)
Everyone who has a treaty with you(E)
will drive you to the border;
everyone at peace with you
will deceive and conquer you.
Those who eat your bread(F)
will set[a] a trap for you.
He will be unaware of it.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:7 Some LXX mss, Sym, Tg, Vg; MT reads They will set your bread as

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