Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"If thieves came against you, if marauding gangs by night Oh, how you will be destroyed! Would they not steal only until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave some grapes to be gleaned?
New American Standard Bible
If
O how you will be ruined!—
Would they not steal only
If grape gatherers came to you,
King James Version
If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
Holman Bible
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?
A Conservative Version
If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night (how thou are cut off!), would they not steal [only] till they had enough? If grape gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
American Standard Version
If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night (how art thou cut off!), would they not steal only till they had enough? if grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
Amplified
“If thieves came to you,
If robbers by night—
How you will be ruined!—
Would they not steal only until they had enough?
If grape gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave some grapes for gleaning?
Bible in Basic English
If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?
Darby Translation
If thieves had come to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had had enough? If grape-gatherers had come to thee, would they not have left some gleanings?
Julia Smith Translation
If thieves came to thee, if those laying waste by night, (how thou wert destroyed!) will not they steal their sufficiency? If the grape gatherers came to thee will they not leave gleanings?
King James 2000
If thieves came to you, if robbers by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"If thieves came to you, if plunderers of [the] night--How you have been destroyed!--would they not steal {what they wanted}? If grape gatherers came, would they not leave gleanings?
Modern King James verseion
If thieves came to you, if destroyers by night (how you have been cut off!), would they not have stolen until they had enough? If the grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If the thieves and robbers came to thee by night, thou taking thy rest: should they not steal, till they had enough? If the grape gatherers came upon thee, would they not leave thee some grapes?
NET Bible
"If thieves came to rob you during the night, they would steal only as much as they wanted! If grape pickers came to harvest your vineyards, they would leave some behind for the poor! But you will be totally destroyed!
New Heart English Bible
"If thieves came to you, if robbers by night?oh, what disaster awaits you?wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes?
The Emphasized Bible
If, thieves, had come to thee, if robbers by night - how ruined thou art! Would they not have stolen what sufficed them? If, grape-gatherers, had come to thee, Would they not have left gleanings?
Webster
If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
World English Bible
"If thieves came to you, if robbers by night -- oh, what disaster awaits you -- wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes?
Youngs Literal Translation
If thieves have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings?
Themes
Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as
Prophets » Names of persons spoken of as
Religious » Names of persons spoken of as
Interlinear
come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Obadiah 1:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Edom Will Be Humbled
4 Though you soar high like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, I will bring you down even from there," declares the Lord. 5 "If thieves came against you, if marauding gangs by night Oh, how you will be destroyed! Would they not steal only until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave some grapes to be gleaned? 6 "Oh, how Esau is ransacked, how his hidden treasures are thoroughly searched out!
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:21
When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, don't go back a second time. What remains are for the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow.
Jeremiah 49:9
If the grape harvesters came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came at night, they would destroy only until they had enough.
2 Samuel 1:19
"Your beauty, Israel, lies slain on your high places! O, how the valiant have fallen!
Isaiah 14:12
"How you have fallen from heaven, Day Star, son of the Dawn! How you have been thrown down to earth, you who laid low the nation!
Isaiah 17:6
Nevertheless, gleanings will remain in Israel, as when an olive tree is beaten two or three ripe olives left in the topmost branches, four or five left among the branches of a fruit-filled tree," declares the LORD God of Israel.
Isaiah 24:13
So it will be on the earth and among the nations as when an olive tree is beaten, or as gleanings when the grape harvest has ended."
Jeremiah 50:23
How the hammer of all the earth is cut off and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
Lamentations 1:1
How lonely she lies, the city that thronged with people! Like a widow she has become, this great one among nations! The princess among provinces has become a vassal.
Micah 7:1
Poor me! I feel like those who harvest summer fruit, or like those who pick grapes there are no clusters to eat or any fresh fruit that I want.
Zephaniah 2:15
This is that carefree city that lived irresponsibly, that told herself, "Me first!' and, "There will be no one else!' How ruined she has become a habitat for wild animals! Everyone who passes by her will sneer at her and make obscene gestures!"
Revelation 18:10
Frightened by the torture that she experiences, they will stand far away and cry out, "How terrible, how terrible it is for that great city, the powerful city Babylon, because your judgment arrived in a single hour!"