Obadiah 1:5 (DRB)

Passage

If thieves had gone in to thee, if robbers by night, how wouldst thou have held thy peace? would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers had come in to thee, would they not have left thee at the least a cluster?

Nearby Context

Obadiah 1:3 The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest in thy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground?

Obadiah 1:4 Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

Obadiah 1:5 If thieves had gone in to thee, if robbers by night, how wouldst thou have held thy peace? would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers had come in to thee, would they not have left thee at the least a cluster?

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

Obadiah 1:7 They have sent thee out even to the border: all the men of thy confederacy have deceived thee: the men of thy peace have prevailed against thee: they that eat with thee shall lay snares under thee: there is no wisdom in him.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thieves", "gone", "thee", "robbers", "night", "wouldst", "thou", and "held". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thieves" and "gone", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 4's "Though thou be exalted as an eagle..." into verse 6's "How have they searched Esau how have...", so "thieves" and "gone" belong inside that flow. In Obadiah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thieves" and "gone" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.