Obadiah 1:10 {9}
Good News Translation
"Because you robbed and killed your relatives, the descendants of Jacob, you will be destroyed and dishonored forever.

New Revised Standard Version
For the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.

Contemporary English Version
You were cruel to your relatives, the descendants of Jacob. Now you will be destroyed, disgraced forever.

New American Bible
Because of violence to your brother Jacob, disgrace will cover you, you will be done away with forever!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

violence.

Genesis 27:11,41 And he answered her: Thou knowest that Esau, my brother, is a hairy man, and I am smooth: . . .

Numbers 20:14-21 In the mean time Moses sent messengers from Cades to the king of Edom, to say: Thus saith thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the labour that hath come upon us: . . .

Psalm 83:5-9 For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee, . . .

Psalm 137:7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Lamentations 4:21 Sin. Rejoice, and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Hus: to thee also shall the cup come, thou shalt be made drunk, and naked.

Ezekiel 25:12 Thus saith the Lord God: Because Edom hath taken vengeance to revenge herself of the children of Juda, and hath greatly offended, and hath sought revenge of them:

Ezekiel 35:5,6,12-15 Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast shut up the children of Israel in the hands of the sword in the time of their affliction, in the time of their last iniquity. . . .

Amos 1:11 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath pursued his brother with the sword, and hath carried on his fury, and hath kept his wrath to the end.

shame.

Psalm 69:7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Psalm 89:45 Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion.

Psalm 109:29 Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion as with a double cloak.

Psalm 132:18 His enemies I will clothe with confusion: but upon him shall my sanctification flourish.

Jeremiah 3:25 We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from our youth even to this day, and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: because strangers are come upon the sanctuaries of the house of the Lord.

Ezekiel 7:18 And they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear shall cover them and shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all their heads.

Micah 7:10 And my enemy shall behold, and she shall be covered with shame, who saith to me: Where is the Lord thy God? my eyes shall look down upon her: now shall she be trodden under foot as the mire of the streets.

and.

Jeremiah 49:13,17-20 For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bosra shall become a desolation, and a reproach, and a desert, and a curse: and all her cities shall be everlasting wastes. . . .

Ezekiel 25:13,14 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I will stretch forth my hand upon Edom, and will take away out of it man and beast, and will make it desolate from the south: and they that are in Dedan shall fall by the sword. . . .

Ezekiel 35:6,7,15 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will deliver thee up to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and whereas thou hast hated blood, blood shall pursue thee. . . .

Malachi 1:3,4 But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert. . . .

Context
The Destruction of Edom
9Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, destroy the wise out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? 10And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.11For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother Jacob, confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever.…
Cross References
Genesis 27:41
Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.

Deuteronomy 23:7
Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

2 Chronicles 28:17
And the Edomites came and slew many of Juda, and took a great booty.

Psalm 137:7
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Proverbs 10:6
The memory of the just is with praises: and the name of the wicked shall rot.

Ezekiel 25:12
Thus saith the Lord God: Because Edom hath taken vengeance to revenge herself of the children of Juda, and hath greatly offended, and hath sought revenge of them:

Ezekiel 35:5
Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast shut up the children of Israel in the hands of the sword in the time of their affliction, in the time of their last iniquity.

Ezekiel 35:9
I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.

Joel 3:19
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed: because they have done unjustly against the children of Juda, and have shed innocent blood in their land.

Amos 1:11
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath pursued his brother with the sword, and hath carried on his fury, and hath kept his wrath to the end.

Malachi 1:4
But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed, but we will return and build up what hath been destroyed: thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall build up, and I will throw down: and they shall be called the borders of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.

Obadiah 1:9
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