Obadiah 1:14 {13}
Good News Translation
You should not have stood at the crossroads to catch those trying to escape. You should not have handed them over to the enemy on the day of their distress.

New Revised Standard Version
You should not have stood at the crossings to cut off his fugitives; you should not have handed over his survivors on the day of distress.

Contemporary English Version
In their time of torment, you ambushed refugees and handed them over to their attackers.

New American Bible
Do not stand at the crossroads to cut down his survivors; Do not hand over his fugitives on the day of distress!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of my people in the day of their ruin: neither shalt thou also look on in his evils in the day of his calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against his army in the day of his desolation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of my people in the day of their ruin: neither shalt thou also look on in his evils in the day of his calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against his army in the day of his desolation.

neither shouldest.

Amos 1:6,9 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four I will not convert it: because they have carried away a perfect captivity to shut them up in Edom. . . .

delivered up.

Psalm 31:8 And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.

in the day.

Obadiah 1:12 In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.

Genesis 35:3 Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompained me in my journey.

Isaiah 37:3 And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a day of tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

Jeremiah 30:7 Alas, for that day is great, neither is there the like to it; and it is the time of tribulation to Jacob, but he shall be saved out of it.

Context
The Destruction of Edom
13But thou shalt not look on in the day of thy brother, in the day of his leaving his country: and thou shalt not rejoice over the children of Juda, in the day of their destruction: and thou shalt not magnify thy mouth in the day of distress. 14Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of my people in the day of their ruin: neither shalt thou also look on in his evils in the day of his calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against his army in the day of his desolation.
Cross References
Matthew 22:9
Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find, call to the marriage.

Isaiah 16:3
Take counsel, gather a council: make thy shadow as the night in the midday: hide them that flee, and betray not them that wander about.

Isaiah 16:4
My fugitives shall dwell with thee: O Moab, be thou a covert to them from the face of the destroyer: for the dust is at an end, the wretch is consumed: he hath failed, that trod the earth under foot.

Obadiah 1:13
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