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The Destruction of Edom

Obadiah 1:10

In 11 translations

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.
LSV
For slaughter, for violence [to] your brother Jacob, || Shame covers you, || And you have been cut off for all time.
YLT
For slaughter, for violence [to] thy brother Jacob, Cover thee doth shame, And thou hast been cut off — to the age.
DBY
Because of violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
DRC
For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother Jacob, confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever.
GNV
For thy crueltie against thy brother Iaakob, shame shall couer thee, and thou shalt be cut off for euer.
JPS
For the violence done to thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
LXXE
Because of the slaughter and the sin committed against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

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Original-language editions

WLC
מֵחֲמַ֛ס אָחִ֥יךָ יַעֲקֹ֖ב תְּכַסְּךָ֣ בוּשָׁ֑ה וְנִכְרַ֖תָּ לְעוֹלָֽם׃
LXX-Br
Διὰ τὴν σφαγὴν, καὶ τὴν ἀσέβειαν ἀδελφοῦ σου Ἰακὼβ, καλύψει σε αἰσχύνη, καὶ ἐξαρθήσῃ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

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👤 Jacob (Israel)◆ Prophecies of Obadiah

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Amos 1:11This 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…
  • Malachi 1:3–4but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.” Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of…
  • Genesis 27:41Esau 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.”
  • Psalms 137:7Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
  • Ezekiel 35:9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  • Psalms 89:45You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah
  • Genesis 27:11Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
  • Numbers 20:14–21From 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, how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The…
  • Ezekiel 35:5–7Because 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, therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will…
  • Ezekiel 25:12–14This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt, therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and…
  • 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. As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no…
  • Jeremiah 51:51“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.”
  • Ezekiel 7:18They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.
  • Micah 7:10Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame— she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.
  • Psalms 109:29May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.
  • Joel 3:19Egypt 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.

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