Teks -- Obadiah 1:4 (NET)

1:4 Even if you were to soar high like an eagle, even if you were to make your nest among the stars, I can bring you down even from there!” says the Lord.

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Wesley: Oba 1:4 - Bring thee down

God who is in the heavens would throw thee down. When men could not marshal armies against thee, stars should fight in their courses against thee. Nothing can stand which God will cast down, Jer 49:16-17.

JFB: Oba 1:4 - exalt thyself

Or supply from the second clause, "thy nest" [MAURER] (Compare Job 20:6; Jer 49:16; Amo 9:2).

JFB: Oba 1:4 - set . . . nest among . . . stars

Namely, on the loftiest hills which seem to reach the very stars. Edom is a type of Antichrist (Isa 14:13; Dan 8:10; Dan 11:37).

JFB: Oba 1:4 - thence will I bring thee down

In spite of thy boast (Oba 1:3), "Who shall bring me down?"

Clarke: Oba 1:4 - Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle

Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle - Though like this bird thou get into the highest cliff of the highest rock, it will not avail thee. To defend thee, when Jehovah has determined thy destruction, thy deepest caves and highest rocks will be equally useless. See Jer 49:16.

TSK: Oba 1:4 - exalt // among

exalt : Job 20:6, Job 20:7, Job 39:27, Job 39:28; Jer 49:16; Hab 2:9

among : Isa 14:12-15; Jer 51:53; Amo 9:2

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Poole: Oba 1:4 - Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle // Though thou set thy nest among the stars // Thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord

Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle: Edom boasted of his strength from the height of the rocks he dwelt on, Oba 1:3 , but here he is answered, if he could build his nest as the eagles, which build and fly much higher than any other bird, neither the height of the nest should save the young ones, nor the height of his flight save the old one.

Though thou set thy nest among the stars nay yet, in a more lofty strain, suppose you could lodge your brood among the stars for safety, and there fly above the reach of man, yet should you not be out of the reach of danger.

Thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord God who is in the heavens would throw thee down; when men could not marshal armies against thee, stars should fight in their courses against thee. Nothing can stand which God will cast down. See Jer 49:16,17 .

Haydock: Oba 1:4 - Down

Down. (Job xx. 6.) How vain is all human power!

Gill: Oba 1:4 - Though thou exaltest thyself as the eagle // and though thou set thy nest among the stars // thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord

Though thou exaltest thyself as the eagle,.... That soars aloft, flies on high, even out of sight, higher than any other bird does: or, "exaltest thy habitation"; and makest it as high as the eagle's nest; see Jer 49:16;

and though thou set thy nest among the stars; even higher than the eagle's; an hyperbolical expression, supposing that which never was or can be done; yet, if it was possible, would not secure from danger: or should their castles and fortresses be built upon the top of the highest mountains, which seem to reach the heavens, and be among the stars:

thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord; this is said in answer to the question put, or bold challenge made, in Oba 1:3; if men cannot do it, God will; and, if he employs instruments to effect it, it shall be done by them; all seeming difficulties are easily surmounted by an omnipotent Being; what are the heights of mountains, or the strength of fortresses, to him? thus the whore of Rome sits upon seven mountains, and mystical Babylon reigns over the kings of the earth; yet shall be thrown down and found no more, for the Lord is strong that judgeth her, Rev 17:9.