Bible Strands
Obadiah 1:10
Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet pronounces judgment on Edom for its hostility toward Israel during the Babylonian invasion. The declaration occurs as foreign forces plunder Jerusalem and Edom refuses to intervene.
The words — The Hebrew word חָמָס (cha.Mas) names the violence inflicted on Jacob, while כָּסָה (kha.se) describes the shame that will cover Edom. The phrase נִכְרַת לְעוֹלָם (nikh.Ra ta le.'o.Lam) pronounces a permanent cutting off.
The thread — The condemnation traces Edom’s historical enmity toward Jacob through Genesis 27:41, Amos 1:11, and Malachi 1:3. The text links ancestral rivalry to a definitive prophetic reckoning.
Why it lands — The verse demands recognition that complicity in another’s suffering produces irreversible shame and exclusion. It establishes that divine judgment follows the exploitation of kinship and the abandonment of covenant community.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
Cross-references
- Amos 1:11 This 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 fury flamed incessantly.
- Genesis 27:41 Esau 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.”
- Malachi 1:3 but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
- Psalms 89:45 You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah
- Psalms 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
- Ezekiel 35:9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Genesis 27:11 Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
- Numbers 20:14 From 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,
- Jeremiah 49:17 “Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
- Ezekiel 25:12 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,