Obadiah 1:10 “Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covere…”

Obadiah 1:10

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

World English Bible

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

American Standard Version

For the violence done to thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

Geneva Bible 1599

For thy crueltie against thy brother Iaakob, shame shall couer thee, and thou shalt be cut off for euer.

Darby Translation

Because of violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

Young's Literal Translation

For slaughter, for violence [to] thy brother Jacob, Cover thee doth shame, And thou hast been cut off — to the age.

Bible in Basic English

Because you were the cause of violent death and because of your cruel behaviour to your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and will be cut off for ever.

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Cross references

“violence”

Amos 1:11 Genesis 27:41 Psalm 137:7 Genesis 27:11 Numbers 20:14–21 Psalm 83:5–9

Amos 1:11 · BSB

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…

Genesis 27:41 · BSB

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.”

Psalm 137:7 · BSB

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

Genesis 27:11 · BSB

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

Numbers 20:14–21 · BSB

From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to tell the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

Psalm 83:5–9 · BSB

For with one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against You—

“shame”

Psalm 89:45 Psalm 69:7 Psalm 109:29 Psalm 132:18 Jeremiah 3:25 Jeremiah 51:51

Psalm 89:45 · BSB

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

Psalm 69:7 · BSB

For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.

Psalm 109:29 · BSB

May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.

Psalm 132:18 · BSB

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam.”

Jeremiah 3:25 · BSB

Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”

Jeremiah 51:51 · BSB

“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”

“and”

Jeremiah 49:17–20 Jeremiah 49:13 Ezekiel 25:13 Ezekiel 25:14 Ezekiel 35:7 Ezekiel 35:15

Jeremiah 49:17–20 · BSB

“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

Jeremiah 49:13 · BSB

For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”

Ezekiel 25:13 · BSB

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 25:14 · BSB

I will take My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to My anger and wrath. Then they will know My vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.’

Ezekiel 35:7 · BSB

I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

Ezekiel 35:15 · BSB

As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

Also

Ezekiel 35:9 Joel 3:19

Ezekiel 35:9 · BSB

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

Joel 3:19 · BSB

Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

11On 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.

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