Obadiah 10
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Edom Mistreated His Brother
10 For the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob,
shame shall cover you,
and you shall be cut off forever.(A)
Amos 1:11
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11 Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Edom,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because he pursued his brother with the sword
and cast off all pity;
he maintained his anger perpetually[b]
and kept his wrath[c] forever.(A)
Psalm 89:45
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45 You have cut short the days of his youth;
you have covered him with shame. Selah(A)
Malachi 1:3-4
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3 but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.(A) 4 If Edom says, ‘We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,’ the Lord of hosts says: They may build, but I will tear down, until they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.
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Ezekiel 35:9
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9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall never be inhabited. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.(A)
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Psalm 137:7
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7 Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites
the day of Jerusalem’s fall,
how they said, “Tear it down! Tear it down!
Down to its foundations!”(A)
Numbers 20:14-21
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Passage through Edom Refused
14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the adversity that has befallen us,(A) 15 how our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians oppressed us and our ancestors,(B) 16 and when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt, and here we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.(C) 17 Now let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard or drink water from any well; we will go along the King’s Highway, not turning aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”
18 But Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through, or we will come out with the sword against you.” 19 The Israelites said to him, “We will stay on the highway, and if we drink of your water, we and our livestock, then we will pay for it. It is only a small matter; just let us pass through on foot.”(D) 20 But he said, “You shall not pass through.” And Edom came out against them with a large force, heavily armed. 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through their territory, so Israel turned away from them.(E)
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Genesis 27:41
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Jacob Escapes Esau’s Fury
41 Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”(A)
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Joel 3:19
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19 Egypt shall become a desolation
and Edom a desolate wilderness,
because of the violence done to the people of Judah,
in whose land they have shed innocent blood.(A)
Ezekiel 35:12-15
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12 You shall know that I, the Lord, have heard all the abusive speech that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are laid desolate; they are given us to devour.” 13 And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.(A) 14 Thus says the Lord God: As the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.(B) 15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir and all Edom, all of it. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.(C)
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Ezekiel 35:5-7
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5 Because you cherished an ancient enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment,(A) 6 therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will make you bloody, and blood shall pursue you; since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. 7 I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it all who come and go.(B)
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Ezekiel 25:12-14
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Proclamation against Edom
12 Thus says the Lord God: Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance upon them,(A) 13 therefore thus says the Lord God: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it humans and animals, and I will make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.(B) 14 I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall act in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord God.(C)
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Ezekiel 7:18
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18 They shall put on sackcloth;
horror shall cover them.
Shame shall be on all faces,
baldness on all their heads.(A)
Lamentations 4:21
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21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter Edom,
you that live in the land of Uz;
but to you also the cup shall pass;
you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.(A)
Jeremiah 51:51
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51 We are put to shame, for we have heard insults;
dishonor has covered our faces,
for aliens have come
into the holy places of the Lord’s house.(A)
Jeremiah 49:17-20
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17 Edom shall become an object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.(A) 18 As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors were overthrown, says the Lord, no one shall live there, nor shall anyone settle in it.(B) 19 Like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Jordan to a perennial pasture, I will suddenly chase Edom[a] away from it, and I will appoint over it whomever I choose.[b] For who is like me? Who can summon me? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?(C) 20 Therefore hear the plan that the Lord has made against Edom and the purposes that he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.(D)
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Jeremiah 49:13
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13 For by myself I have sworn, says the Lord, that Bozrah shall become an object of horror and ridicule, a waste, and an object of cursing, and all her towns shall be perpetual wastes.(A)
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Jeremiah 3:25
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25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us, for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our ancestors, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”(A)
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Psalm 132:18
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18 His enemies I will clothe with disgrace,
but on him, his crown will gleam.”(A)
Psalm 109:29
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29 May my accusers be clothed with dishonor;
may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle.(A)
Psalm 83:5-9
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5 They conspire with one accord;
against you they make a covenant—(A)
6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites,(B)
7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assyria also has joined them;
they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah
9 Do to them as you did to Midian,
as to Sisera and Jabin at the Wadi Kishon,(C)
Psalm 69:7
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7 It is for your sake that I have borne reproach,
that shame has covered my face.(A)
Genesis 27:11
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11 But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a man of smooth skin.(A)
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