OLD TESTAMENT

Obadiah 1:3

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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?’

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Verse 3. Rocks. Hebrew “Selah,” or Petra, the capital. Calmet.—People dwell in caverns from Eleutheropolis to Ailath. Saint Jerome

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