Obadiah 1:10

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

From the violence to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever!

Latin

Propter interfectionem, et propter iniquitatem in fratrem tuum Jacob, operiet te confusio, et peribis in æternum.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Obadiah 1:10–14

Because of the violence against your brother Jacob: The reason for Esau’s condemnation is explained in Obadiah 1:10 (see also Isaiah 34; Jeremiah 49:7–22; Joel 3:19; Amos 1:11–12) and expanded in Obadiah 1:11–14, where Edom’s betrayal is described. In legal terms, these verses provide evidence for the charge of breaking a covenant.

Theme notes and profiles

Messages Against the Nations

Events

Prophecies of Obadiahc. 585 BC

Related verses

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.
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.”
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.”
Psalm 137:7
Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
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.
Psalm 89:45
You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah
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,
Numbers 20:14–21
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,
Ezekiel 35:5–7
Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,
Jeremiah 49:17–20
“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
Genesis 27:11
Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
Jeremiah 3:25
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.”

Parallels

Jeremiah 49:7–22

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Book of Obadiah Obadiah (Person)

Topics

Brother: Signifies: Any Israelite Edom: A Name of the Land Occupied by the Descendants of Esau: Sins of Esau: Hostility of Descendants of, Toward the Descendants of Jacob Malice: Punishment of The Edomites: Predictions Respecting: Punishment for Persecuting Israel The Jews: None Hated or Oppressed, with Impunity

Obadiah 1:10

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