Obadiah 1:2 {1}
Good News Translation
The LORD says to Edom, "I will make you weak; everyone will despise you.

New Revised Standard Version
I will surely make you least among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD said to Edom: I will make you the weakest and most despised nation.

New American Bible
Now I make you least among the nations; you are utterly contemptible.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God to Edom: We have heard a rumour from the Lord, and he hath sent an ambassador to the nations: Arise, and let us rise up to battle against him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God to Edom: We have heard a rumour from the Lord, and he hath sent an ambassador to the nations: Arise, and let us rise up to battle against him.

Numbers 24:18 And he shall possess Idumea: the inheritance of Seir shall come to their enemies, but Israel shall do manfully.

1 Samuel 2:7,8 The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth: . . .

Job 34:25-29 For he knoweth their works: and therefore he shall bring night on them, and they shall be destroyed. . . .

Psalm 107:39,40 Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow. . . .

Isaiah 23:9 The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to pull down the pride of all glory, and bring to disgrace all the glorious ones of the earth.

Ezekiel 29:15 It shall be the lowest among other kingdoms, and it shall no more be exalted over the nations, and I will diminish them that they shall rule no more over the nations.

Micah 7:10 And my enemy shall behold, and she shall be covered with shame, who saith to me: Where is the Lord thy God? my eyes shall look down upon her: now shall she be trodden under foot as the mire of the streets.

Luke 1:51,52 He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart. . . .

Context
The Destruction of Edom
1And I will plant them upon their own land: and I will no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God. 2The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God to Edom: We have heard a rumour from the Lord, and he hath sent an ambassador to the nations: Arise, and let us rise up to battle against him.3Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art exceeding contemptible.…
Cross References
Numbers 24:18
And he shall possess Idumea: the inheritance of Seir shall come to their enemies, but Israel shall do manfully.

Isaiah 23:9
The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to pull down the pride of all glory, and bring to disgrace all the glorious ones of the earth.

Obadiah 1:1
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