Obadiah 1:9 (DBY)

Passage

And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter.

Nearby Context

Obadiah 1:7 All the men of thy confederacy have pushed thee to the border; the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, they have prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy bread have laid a snare under thee. There is no understanding in him.

Obadiah 1:8 Shall I not in that day, saith Jehovah, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

Obadiah 1:9 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter.

Obadiah 1:10 Because of violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

Obadiah 1:11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away captive his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "mighty", "teman", "shall", "dismayed", "mount", "esau", and "slaughter". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "mighty" and "teman", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "Shall I not in that day saith..." into verse 10's "Because of violence against thy brother Jacob...", so "mighty" and "teman" belong inside that flow. In Obadiah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "mighty" and "teman" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.