“For violence against your brother Jacob, Shame shall cover you, And you shall be cut off forever.
Parallel translations
- WEB For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
- KJV For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
- BSB Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and 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.
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Cross-references · 23
- Amos 1:11Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;
- Mal 1:3–4but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
- Gen 27:41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
- Ps 137:7Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”
- Ezek 35:9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ps 89:45You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.
- Num 20:14–21Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us;
- Ezek 25:12–14Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself on them;
- Jer 49:17–20“Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues.
- Ezek 35:5–7Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
- Ps 69:7Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
- Ps 83:5–9For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
- Gen 27:11Jacob 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, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.
- Joel 3:19Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
- Ps 109:29Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
- Mic 7:10Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
- Ezek 7:18They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
- Ezek 35:12–15You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they have been given us to devour.
- Jer 51:51“We are confounded, because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”
- Ps 132:18I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will be resplendent.”
- Jer 49:13For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”
- Jer 3:25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”
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