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For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
Obadiah 1:10 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
  • BSB Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
  • NKJV “For violence against your brother Jacob, Shame shall cover you, And you shall be cut off forever.
  • NASB ¶“Because of violence to your brother Jacob, Shame will cover you, And you will be eliminated forever.
  • NLT “Because of the violence you did to your close relatives in Israel, you will be filled with shame and destroyed forever.

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Quick answer

Because of the violence Edom did to her brother Jacob, she will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

Overview

Here the central charge against Edom is stated: violence against 'your brother Jacob,' that is, against Israel, with whom Edom shared ancestry through Esau and Jacob. The bond of kinship made Edom's hostility especially grievous, betraying both family and the covenant people of God. The sentence of lasting shame underscores how seriously God regards cruelty toward those he has chosen.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Amos 1:11Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
  • Mal 1:3–4And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
  • Gen 27:41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
  • Ps 137:7Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
  • Ezek 35:9I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
  • Ps 89:45The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
  • Num 20:14–21And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
  • Ezek 25:12–14Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
  • Jer 49:17–20Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
  • Ezek 35:5–7Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
  • Ps 69:7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
  • Ps 83:5–9For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
  • Gen 27:11And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
  • Lam 4:21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
  • Joel 3:19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
  • Ps 109:29Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
  • Mic 7:10Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
  • Ezek 7:18They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
  • Ezek 35:12–15And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
  • Jer 51:51We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’s house.
  • Ps 132:18His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
  • Jer 49:13For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
  • Jer 3:25We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

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Christ at the center

The day of the LORD against proud Edom and the promise that 'the kingdom shall be the LORD's' anticipate the final reign of Christ over every hostile power.

How Obadiah 1:10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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