‘If thieves came to you,
    if robbers in the night –
oh, what a disaster awaits you –
    would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
    would they not leave a few grapes?
But how Esau will be ransacked,
    his hidden treasures pillaged!
All your allies will force you to the border;
    your friends will deceive and overpower you;
those who eat your bread will set a trap for you,[a]
    but you will not detect it.

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.