Obadiah 1:4 (YLT)

Passage

If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Nearby Context

Obadiah 1:2 Lo, little I have made thee among nations, Despised <FI>art<Fi> thou exceedingly.

Obadiah 1:3 The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, O dweller in clifts of a rock, (A high place <FI>is<Fi> his habitation, He is saying in his heart, `Who doth bring me down <FI>to<Fi> earth?')

Obadiah 1:4 If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Obadiah 1:5 If thieves have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings?

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

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou", "dost", "high", "eagle", "between", and "stars". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thou" and "dost", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 3's "The pride of thy heart hath lifted..." into verse 5's "If thieves have come in to thee...", so "thou" and "dost" 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 "thou" and "dost" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.