Obadiah 1:3

"The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’"

Key Reflection

This verse highlights the dangerous delusion of pride, where individuals believe they are secure and untouchable—dwelling metaphorically in the high, impregnable clefts of a rock. Such pride blinds one to their vulnerability and the potential for judgment or downfall.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee -Not the strength of its mountain-fastnesses, strong though they were, deceived Edom, but “the pride of his heart.” That strength was but the occasion which called forth the “pride.” Yet, it was strong in its abode. God, as it were, admits it to them. “Dweller in the clefts of the rocks, the loftiness of his habitation.” “The whole southern country of the Edomites,” says Jerome, “from Eleutheropolis to Petra and Selah (which are the possessions of Esau), hath minute dwellings in caves; and on account of the oppressive heat of the sun, as being a southe

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