For [thy] violence against thy brother Jacob
Which is aggravated: by being against Jacob, an honest plain
hearted man, and whom the Lord loved; his brother, his own
brother, a twin brother, yea, his only brother; yet this is to be
understood, not so much of the violence of Esau against Jacob
personally, though there is an allusion to that; as of the
violence of the posterity of the one against the posterity of the
other; and not singly of the violence shown at the destruction of
Jerusalem, but in general of the anger they bore, the wrath they
showed, and the injuries they did to their brethren the Jews, on
all occasions, whenever they had an opportunity, of which the
following is a notorious instance; and for which more especially,
as well as for the above things, they are threatened with ruin:
shame shall cover thee;
as a garment; they shall be filled with blushing, and covered
with confusion, when convicted of their sin, and punished for it:
and thou shalt be cut off for ever;
from being a nation; either by Nebuchadnezzar; or in the times of
the Maccabees by Hyrcanus, when they were subdued by the Jews,
and were incorporated among them, and never since was a separate
people or kingdom.