Obadiah 1:10 (DRB)

Passage

For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother Jacob, confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever.

Nearby Context

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

Obadiah 1:9 And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

Obadiah 1:10 For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother Jacob, confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever.

Obadiah 1:11 In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.

Obadiah 1:12 But thou shalt not look on in the day of thy brother, in the day of his leaving his country: and thou shalt not rejoice over the children of Juda, in the day of their destruction: and thou shalt not magnify thy mouth in the day of distress.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "slaughter", "iniquity", "against", "brother", "jacob", "confusion", "shall", and "cover". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "slaughter" and "iniquity", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "And thy valiant men of the south..." into verse 11's "In the day when thou stoodest against...", so "slaughter" and "iniquity" 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 "slaughter" and "iniquity" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.