Obadiah 1:10, NLT

Reasons for Edom’s Punishment

10“Because of the violence you did

to your close relatives in Israel,*10 Hebrew your brother Jacob. The names “Jacob” and “Israel” are often interchanged throughout the Old Testament, referring sometimes to the individual patriarch and sometimes to the nation.

you will be filled with shame

and destroyed forever.

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