But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I’m a smooth man.
Obadiah 1:10 - Tree of Life Version “Because of your violence to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For the violence you did against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. American Standard Version (1901) For the violence done to thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. Common English Bible Because of the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be destroyed forever. Catholic Public Domain Version Because of the execution, and because of the iniquity against your brother Jacob, confusion will cover you, and you will pass away into eternity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother Jacob, confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever. |
But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I’m a smooth man.
So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, “Let the time for mourning my father draw near, so that I can kill my brother Jacob!”
Once again the Edomites had come and invaded Judah and taken captives,
My accusers will be clothed in disgrace, and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.
His enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon himself his crown will shine.”
Remember, Adonai, the children of Edom, what they said on the day Jerusalem fell: “Strip her, strip her to her very foundation!”
May those who hope in You not be ashamed because of me, my Lord, Adonai-Tzva’ot. May those who seek You not be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel.
You brought his splendor to an end, and cast his throne down to the ground.
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker. Whoever rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.
Thus says Adonai, “As for all My evil neighbors who strike at the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel—I am about to uproot them from their land and pluck the house of Judah from them.
Let’s lie down with our shame and let our disgrace cover us! For we have sinned against Adonai Eloheinu —both we and our fathers— from our youth even to this day. We have not paid attention to the voice of Adonai Eloheinu.”
For I have sworn by Myself” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “that Bozrah will become a horror, a disgrace, a waste and a curse. All its towns will be ruins forever.”
“We were shamed when we heard reproach. Disgrace has covered our faces, for foreigners entered the holy places of Adonai’s House.”
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. To you also will the cup be passed. You will be drunk and stripped naked.
O daughter of Zion, your punishment is accomplished; He will exile you no longer. But, O daughter of Edom, He will punish your iniquity and uncover your sins.
I will make you everlasting desolations; your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Adonai.
They will also gird on sackcloth. Horror will cover them. Shame will be upon all faces. Baldness will be upon all their heads.
Thus says Adonai: For three crimes of Edom even for four, I will not relent. For he pursued his brother with a sword and stifled his compassion. For his anger tore continually, and he kept his wrath forever.
Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her— she who said to me: “Where is Adonai, your God?” My eyes will gaze at her— now she will be trampled like mud in streets.
“You are not to detest an Edomite, for he is your brother. You are not to detest an Egyptian, for you were an outsider in his land.