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Obadiah 1:10

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

For thy violence {H2555} against thy brother {H251} Jacob {H3290} shame {H955} shall cover {H3680} thee, and thou shalt be cut off {H3772} for ever {H5769}.

For the violence done to your kinsman Ya'akov, shame will cover you; and you will be forever cut off.

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

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

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Cross-References

  • Amos 1:11 (6 votes)

    Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

  • Malachi 1:3 (5 votes)

    And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

  • Malachi 1:4 (5 votes)

    Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

  • Psalms 89:45 (4 votes)

    The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

  • Genesis 27:41 (4 votes)

    ¶ And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

  • Ezekiel 35:9 (4 votes)

    I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

  • Jeremiah 49:17 (3 votes)

    Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.