6But how Esau will be ransacked, his hidden treasures pillaged!


In Context

3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, 'Who can bring me down to the ground?'

4 Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down," declares the Lord.

5 "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?

6 But how Esau will be ransacked, his hidden treasures pillaged!

7 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, but you will not detect it.

8 "In that day," declares the Lord , "will I not destroy the wise men of Edom, men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?

Obadiah 1:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:6How are [the things] of Esau searched out! [how] are his hidden things sought up!

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:6How are the things of Esau searched! how are his hidden treasures sought out!

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:6How is Esau searched! his hidden things sought out!

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:6How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out his hidden things?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:6How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden treasures sought up!

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:6How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought!

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:6How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:6How hath Esau been searched out! Flowed out have his hidden things,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:6How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!