Obadiah 1:6

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
How Esau will be pillaged,his hidden treasures searched out!

Hebrew Names Version
How Esav will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

King James Version (1611)
How are the things of Esau searched out? how are his hid things sought vp?

King James Version
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!

English Standard Version
How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!

New American Standard Bible
"Oh how Esau will be searched, And his hidden treasures searched out!

New Century Version
But you, Edom, will really lose everything! People will find all your hidden treasures!

Amplified Bible
"How Esau (Edom) shall be ransacked [by men who come to ravage with divine approval]! How his hidden treasures shall be searched out!

Geneva Bible (1587)
Howe are the things of Esau sought vp, and his treasures searched?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"O how Esau will be ransacked, And his hidden treasures searched out!

Legacy Standard Bible
Oh how Esau will be searched outAnd his hidden treasures ransacked!

Berean Standard Bible
But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!

Contemporary English Version
Everything you treasure most will be taken from you.

Complete Jewish Bible
But see how ‘Esav has been looted, their secret treasures searched out!

Darby Translation
How is Esau searched! his hidden things sought out!

Easy-to-Read Version
But the enemy will search hard for Esau's hidden treasures, and they will find them all.

George Lamsa Translation
How Esau is searched out! how are his hidden things sought out!

Good News Translation
Descendants of Esau, your treasures have been looted.

Lexham English Bible
How Esau has been pillaged; his treasures have been ransacked!

Literal Translation
How Esau is searched out! His hidden things are sought out!

American Standard Version
How are the things of Esau searched! how are his hidden treasures sought out!

Bible in Basic English
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for!

JPS Old Testament (1917)
How is Esau searched out! How are his hidden places sought out!

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howe are the thinges of Esau sought vp, [and] his treasures searched?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How has Esau been searched out, and how have his hidden things been detected?

English Revised Version
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden treasures sought up!

World English Bible
How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hou souyten thei Esau, serchiden the hid thingis of him?

Update Bible Version
How are [the things of] Esau searched! how are his hidden treasures sought out!

Webster's Bible Translation
How are [the things] of Esau searched out! [how] are his hidden things sought!

New English Translation
How the people of Esau will be thoroughly plundered! Their hidden valuables will be ransacked!

New King James Version
"Oh, how Esau shall be searched out! How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!

New Living Translation
Every nook and cranny of Edom will be searched and looted. Every treasure will be found and taken.

New Life Bible
O how Esau will be robbed! His hidden riches will be looked for until they are found.

New Revised Standard
How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures searched out!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How have the things of Esau been searched out! his treasures been sought up!

Douay-Rheims Bible
How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out his hidden things?

Revised Standard Version
How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!

Young's Literal Translation
How hath Esau been searched out! Flowed out have his hidden things,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But how shall they rype Esau, and seke out his treasures?

Contextual Overview

¹ Obadiah's Message to Edom from God , the Master. We got the news straight from God by a special messenger sent out to the godless nations: "On your feet, prepare for battle; get ready to make war on Edom! ²"Listen to this, Edom: I'm turning you to a no-account, the runt of the godless nations, despised. You thought you were so great, perched high among the rocks, king of the mountain, Thinking to yourself, ‘Nobody can get to me! Nobody can touch me!' Think again. Even if, like an eagle, you hang out on a high cliff-face, Even if you build your nest in the stars, I'll bring you down to earth." God 's sure Word. ⁵"If thieves crept up on you, they'd rob you blind—isn't that so? If they mugged you on the streets at night, they'd pick you clean—isn't that so? Oh, they'll take Esau apart, piece by piece, empty his purse and pockets. All your old partners will drive you to the edge. Your old friends will lie to your face. Your old drinking buddies will stab you in the back. Your world will collapse. You won't know what hit you. So don't be surprised"—it's God 's sure Word!— "when I wipe out all sages from Edom and rid the Esau mountains of its famous wise men. Your great heroes will desert you, Teman. There'll be nobody left in Esau's mountains. Because of the murderous history compiled against your brother Jacob, You will be looked down on by everyone. You'll lose your place in history. On that day you stood there and didn't do anything. Strangers took your brother's army into exile. Godless foreigners invaded and pillaged Jerusalem. You stood there and watched. You were as bad as they were. You shouldn't have gloated over your brother when he was down-and-out. You shouldn't have laughed and joked at Judah's sons when they were facedown in the mud. You shouldn't have talked so big when everything was so bad. You shouldn't have taken advantage of my people when their lives had fallen apart. You of all people should not have been amused by their troubles, their wrecked nation. You shouldn't have taken the shirt off their back when they were knocked flat, defenseless. And you shouldn't have stood waiting at the outskirts and cut off refugees, And traitorously turned in helpless survivors who had lost everything.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

are the: Psalms 139:1, Isaiah 10:13, Isaiah 10:14, Isaiah 45:3, Jeremiah 49:10, Jeremiah 50:37, Matthew 6:19, Matthew 6:20

how are his: Daniel 2:22

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 6:9 - They shall Jeremiah 49:9 - grapegatherers Zephaniah 1:12 - that I

Cross-References

Genesis 1:6
God spoke: "Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!" God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was: he named sky the Heavens; It was evening, it was morning— Day Two.

Genesis 1:11
God spoke: "Earth, green up! Grow all varieties of seed-bearing plants, Every sort of fruit-bearing tree." And there it was. Earth produced green seed-bearing plants, all varieties, And fruit-bearing trees of all sorts. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning— Day Three.

Genesis 1:14
God spoke: "Lights! Come out! Shine in Heaven's sky! Separate Day from Night. Mark seasons and days and years, Lights in Heaven's sky to give light to Earth." And there it was.

Genesis 1:20
God spoke: "Swarm, Ocean, with fish and all sea life! Birds, fly through the sky over Earth!" God created the huge whales, all the swarm of life in the waters, And every kind and species of flying birds. God saw that it was good. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Ocean! Birds, reproduce on Earth!" It was evening, it was morning— Day Five.

Genesis 1:26
God spoke: "Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature So they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, And, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth." God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God's nature. He created them male and female. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth."

Psalms 19:1
A David Psalm God's glory is on tour in the skies, God-craft on exhibit across the horizon. Madame Day holds classes every morning, Professor Night lectures each evening.

Psalms 33:6
The skies were made by God 's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out. He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.

Psalms 150:1
Hallelujah! Praise God in his holy house of worship, praise him under the open skies; Praise him for his acts of power, praise him for his magnificent greatness; Praise with a blast on the trumpet, praise by strumming soft strings; Praise him with castanets and dance, praise him with banjo and flute; Praise him with cymbals and a big bass drum, praise him with fiddles and mandolin. Let every living, breathing creature praise God ! Hallelujah!

Ecclesiastes 11:3
When the clouds are full of water, it rains. When the wind blows down a tree, it lies where it falls. Don't sit there watching the wind. Do your own work. Don't stare at the clouds. Get on with your life.

Jeremiah 10:10
But God is the real thing— the living God, the eternal King. When he's angry, Earth shakes. Yes, and the godless nations quake.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How are [the things] of Esau searched out!.... Or how are the Esauites, the posterity of Esau, sought out! though they dwelt in the clefts of the rocks, and hid themselves in caves and dens, yet their enemies searched them, and found there, and plucked them out from thence, so that none escaped:

[how] are his hid things sought up! his riches, wealth and treasure, hid in fortresses, in rocks and caves, where they were thought to be safe, and judged inaccessible; or that an enemy would not have ventured in search of them there; and yet these should be sought after and found by the greedy, and diligent, and venturous soldier, and carried off; which was the case of the Edomites by the Chaldeans, and will be of the antichristian states by the kings of the earth, Revelation 17:16; see

Jeremiah 49:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How are the things of Esau searched out! - literally, “How are Esau, out searched!” i. e., Esau, as a whole and in all its parts and in all its belongings, all its people and all its property, one and all. The name “Esau” speaks of them as a whole; the plural verb, “are outsearched,” represents all its parts. The word signifies a diligent search and tracking out, as in Zephaniah Zephaniah 1:12, “I will search out Jerusalem with candles,” as a man holdeth a light in every dark corner, in seeking diligently some small thing which has been lost. “The hidden things,” i. e., his hidden treasures, “are sought up.” The enemy who should come upon him, should make no passing foray, but should abide there, seeking out of their holes in the rocks, themselves and their treasures. Petra, through its rocky ramparts, was well suited, as Nineveh in the huge circuit of its massive walls was well built, to be the receptacle of rapine.

And now it was gathered, as rapine is, first or last, for the spoiler. It was safe stored up there, to be had for the seeking. No exit, no way of escape. Edom, lately so full of malicious energy, so proud, should lie at the proud foot of its conqueror, passive as the sheep in this large shamble, or as the inanimate hoards which they had laid up and which were now “tracked out.” Soon after Obadiah’s prophecy, Judah, under Ahaz, lost again to Syria, Elath 2 Kings 14:6, which it had now under Uzziah recovered 2 Kings 14:22. The Jews were replaced, it is uncertain whether by Edomites or by some tribe of Syrians. If Syrians, they were then friendly; if Edomites, Elath itself must, on the nearby captivity of Syria, have become the absolute possession of Edom. Either way, commerce again poured its wealth into Edom. To what end? To be possessed and to aggrandize Edom, thought her wealthy and her wise men; to be searched out and plundered, said the word of God. And it was so.