Obadiah 1:10

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Obadiah 1:10

10 Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever.

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Obadiah 1:10 in Other Translations

KJV

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

ESV

10 Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.

NLT

10 “Because of the violence you did to your close relatives in Israel, you will be filled with shame and destroyed forever.

MSG

10 Because of the murderous history compiled against your brother Jacob, You will be looked down on by everyone. You'll lose your place in history.

CSB

10 You will be covered with shame and destroyed forever because of violence done to your brother Jacob.

Obadiah 1:10 Meaning and Commentary

Obadiah 1:10

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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Obadiah 1:10 In-Context

8 “In that day,” declares the LORD, “will I not destroy the wise men of Edom, those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?

9 Your warriors, Teman, will be terrified, and everyone in Esau’s mountains will be cut down in the slaughter.

10 Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever.

11 On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.

12 You should not gloat over your brother in the day of his misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast so much in the day of their trouble.