Obadiah key verses

Obadiah 3 “The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock.”

Pride goes before a fall

Obadiah 4 “Though you soar aloft like the eagle... from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.”

No height is safe from God

Obadiah 10 “Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.”

The reason for Edom’s judgment

Obadiah 12 “But do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune.”

The sin of rejoicing over another’s ruin

Obadiah 15 “As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.”

Deeds return on the doer

Obadiah 17 “But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy.”

The promise of a delivered remnant

Obadiah 21 “And saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.”

The kingdom belongs to God