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Obadiah 1:10

Israel
Sin

8 In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?

9 Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.

Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

11 On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.

12 But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
KJV
For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
WEB
For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
ASV
For the violence done to thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
DARBY
Because of violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
BLB
From the violence [to] your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever!
ÅB
For den vold du har gjort mot din bror Jakob, skal skam dekke deg, og du skal bli utryddet til evig tid.
OTB
På grunn av din vold mot din bror Jakob,
Vil skam dekke deg,
Og du vil bli avskåret for alltid.
B1930
For den vold du har gjort mot din bror Jakob, skal skam dekke dig, og du skal bli utryddet til evig tid.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Amos 1:11

    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.

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  • Malachi 1:3–4

    but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

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  • Genesis 27:41

    Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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  • Psalms 137:7

    Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

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  • Ezekiel 35:9

    I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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  • Psalms 89:45

    You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah

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  • Ezekiel 25:12–14

    This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,

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  • Genesis 27:11

    Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.

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