Obadiah 1:7
kAll the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: 2the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; 3they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: lthere is none understanding 4in him.
All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.
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Psalms 55:12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
Jeremiah 38:22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
2:
Heb. the men of thy peace.
3:
Psalms 41:8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
l:
Isaiah 19:11-19:14 11. ¶Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 12. Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13. The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. 14. The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
Jeremiah 49:7 ¶Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
4:
Or, of it.
they who by league had bound themselves to assist with men and arms, who had made an offensive and defensive league.
either have conducted in honourable manner through their country the ambassadors thou didst send, concluded first a confederacy, and next conveyed home the ambassadors who made it; or else have counselled thee to meet the war before it entereth thy country, and have marched as confederates with thee until thou weft come to the borders of thy country, as if they would there tight for thee against the enemy.
this is ingemination, or repeating of the same thing before mentioned, unless men of thy peace be men that did make peace, and accept the terms thou didst propose for thy advantage.
proved treacherous, nay, designed to betray thee.
either thus their plot took, or else they turned to the enemy, and under his colours destroyed thee.
thy friends, those thou hast maintained, the soldiers thou keptest in pay.
have laid a snare, armed with some sharp and piercing instrument, that wounds as soon as thou fallest on the snare.
either no prudence to foresee and prevent this, or to manage and lessen it.