Obadiah 1:10 (KJV)

Passage

For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

Nearby Context

Obadiah 1:8 Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even 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 of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

Obadiah 1:10 For thy 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 the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

Obadiah 1:12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "And thy mighty men O Teman shall..." into verse 11's "In the day that thou stoodest on...", so "violence" and "against" 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 "violence" and "against" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.