Obadiah 1:9

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

So shall thy mighty men, O Teman, be dismayed, - to the intent that every man, may be cut off, out of Mount Esau, by slaughter.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Teman, your warriors will be terrifiedso that everyone from the hill country of Esauwill be destroyed by slaughter.

Hebrew Names Version
Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esav by slaughter.

King James Version (1611)
And thy mightie men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that euery one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

King James Version
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.

English Standard Version
And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

New American Standard Bible
"Then your warriors will be filled with terror, Teman, So that everyone will be eliminated from the mountain of Esau by murder.

New Century Version
Then, city of Teman, your best warriors will be afraid, and everyone from the mountains of Edom will be killed.

Amplified Bible
"And your mighty men shall be dismayed and demoralized, O Teman, So that everyone from the mountain of Esau may be cut off in the slaughter.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And thy strong men, O Teman, shall bee afraide, because euery one of the mount of Esau shalbe cut off by slaughter.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman, So that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman,So that each one may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

Berean Standard Bible
Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.

Contemporary English Version
Warriors from the city of Teman will be terrified, and you descendants of Esau will be wiped out.

Complete Jewish Bible
Your warriors, Teman, will be so distraught that everyone on Mount ‘Esav will be slaughtered.

Darby Translation
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.

Easy-to-Read Version
Teman, your brave soldiers will be afraid. Everyone will be destroyed from the mountain of Esau. Many people will be killed.

George Lamsa Translation
And your mighty men, O Teman, shall be plundered, so that every man from mount Esau may perish.

Good News Translation
The fighting men of Teman will be terrified, and every soldier in Edom will be killed.

Lexham English Bible
And your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone from the mountain of Esau will be cut off because of the slaughter!

Literal Translation
And your mighty ones, Teman, shall be afraid, so that each man from the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
And your men of war, O Teman, will be overcome with fear, so that every one of them may be cut off from the mountain of Esau.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thy strong men O Theman shalbe afraid: because euery one of the mout of Esau shalbe cut of by slaughter.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thy warriors from Thaeman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

English Revised Version
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.

World English Bible
Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thi stronge men schulen drede of myddai, that a man of the hil of Esau perische.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

New English Translation
Your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone will be destroyed from Esau's mountain!

New King James Version
Then your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau May be cut off by slaughter.

New Living Translation
The mightiest warriors of Teman will be terrified, and everyone on the mountains of Edom will be cut down in the slaughter.

New Life Bible
Then your powerful soldiers will be troubled, O Teman, and every one from Mount Esau will be killed.

New Revised Standard
Your warriors shall be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone from Mount Esau will be cut off.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

Revised Standard Version
And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

Young's Literal Translation
And broken down have been thy mighty ones, O Teman, So that every one of the mount of Esau is cut off.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thy giauntes (o Theman) shalbe afrayed, for thorow the slaughter they shalbe all ouer throwne vpon the mout of Esau.

Contextual Overview

¹ The vision of Obadiah, - Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, concerning Edom - A rumour, have we heard from Yahweh, and, a herald, throughout the nations, hath been sent, Up! and let us rise against her to war. ² Lo! small, have I made thee, among the nations - Despised art thou exceedingly! ³ The insolence of thy heart, hath deceived thee, O thou that inhabitest the retreats of the crag, the height of his habitation, - that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? ⁴ Though thou build high like an eagle, and though, among the stars, thou set thy nest, from thence, will I bring thee down, Declareth Yahweh. ⁵ If, thieves, had come to thee, if robbers by night - how ruined thou art! Would they not have stolen what sufficed them? If, grape-gatherers, had come to thee, Would they not have left gleanings? ⁶ How have the things of Esau been searched out! his treasures been sought up! ⁷ Up to the boundary, have they sent thee - All thy covenant men, they have deceived thee, prevailed against thee - the men thou wast wont to salute, - The partakers of thy bread, have put a net under thee - No understanding in him! ⁸ Shall it not be, in that day, Demandeth Yahweh, - That I will destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau? ⁹ So shall thy mighty men, O Teman, be dismayed, - to the intent that every man, may be cut off, out of Mount Esau, by slaughter.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy: Psalms 76:5, Psalms 76:6, Isaiah 19:16, Isaiah 19:17, Jeremiah 49:22, Jeremiah 50:36, Jeremiah 50:37, Amos 2:16, Nahum 3:13

O: Genesis 36:11, Job 2:11, Jeremiah 49:7, Jeremiah 49:20, Ezekiel 25:13, Amos 1:12

every: Isaiah 34:5-8, Isaiah 63:1-3

mount: Obadiah 1:21, Deuteronomy 2:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 36:15 - duke Teman 1 Chronicles 1:36 - Teman 1 Chronicles 1:45 - Temanites Jeremiah 49:10 - his seed Obadiah 1:18 - and there Habakkuk 3:3 - from

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:2
Now, the earth, had become waste and wild, and darkness, was on the face of the roaring deep, - but, the Spirit of God, was brooding on the face of the waters,

Genesis 1:5
and God called the light, day, but the darkness, called he, night. So it was evening - and it was morning, one day.

Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a means of dividing, between waters and waters,

Genesis 1:8
And God called the expanse, heavens. So it was evening - and it was morning, a, second day.

Genesis 1:9
And God said - Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together, into one place, and let the dry - ground appear. And it was so.

Genesis 1:11
And God said - Let the land put-forth vegetation-herb yielding seed, fruit-tree, bearing fruit, after its kind, whose seed is within it on the land. And it was so,

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said to them Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, - and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth on the land.

Genesis 1:29
And God said - Lo! I have given to you - every herb yielding seed which is on the face of all the land, and every tree wherein is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, - to you, shall it be, for food;

Job 26:7
Who stretcheth out the north over emptiness, hangeth the earth upon nothingness;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thy mighty [men], O Teman, shall be dismayed,.... Teman was one part of the country of Edom, so called from Teman, a son of Eliphaz, and grandson of Esau, Genesis 36:11; and which it seems had been famous for men of might and courage: it abounded with brave officers, and courageous soldiers, who should now be quite dispirited, and have no heart to go out against the enemy; and, instead of defending their country, should throw away their arms, and run away in a fright. The Targum and Vulgate Latin version render it,

"thy mighty men that inhabit the south;''

or are on the south, the southern part of Edom, and so lay farthest off from the Chaldeans, who came from the north; yet these should be at once intimidated upon the rumour of their approach and invasion:

to the end that even one of the mount of Esau may be cut by slaughter; that so there might be none to resist and stop the enemy, or defend their country; but that all might fall by the sword of the enemy, and none be left, even every mighty man, as Jarchi interprets it, through the greatness of the slaughter that should be made.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And thy mighty, O Teman, shall be dismayed - The pagan, more religiously than we, ascribed panic to the immediate action of one of their gods, or to Nature deified, Pan, i. e., the Universe: wrong as to the being whom they “ignorantly worshiped;” right, in ascribing it to what they thought a divine agency. Holy Scripture at times discovers the hidden agency, that we may acknowledge God’s Hand in those terrors which we cannot account for. So it relates, on occasion of Jonathan’s slaughter of the Philistine garrison 1 Samuel 14:15, “there was a trembling in the host and in the field, and among all the people: the garrison and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked, so it became a trembling from God,” or (in our common word,) a panic from God. All then failed Edom. Their allies and friends betrayed them; God took away their wisdom. Wisdom was turned into witlessness, and courage into cowardice; “to the end that every one from mount Esau may be cut off by slaughter.” The prophet sums up briefly God’s end in all this. The immediate means were man’s treachery, man’s violence, the failure of wisdom in the wise, and of courage in the brave. The end of all, in God’s will, was their destruction Romans 8:28.

By slaughter - , literally “from slaughter,” may mean either the immediate or the distant cause of their being “cut off,” either the means which God employed , “All things work together for good to those who love God,” and for evil to those who hate Him, that Edom was cut off by one great slaughter by the enemy; or that which moved God to give them over to destruction, their own “slaughter” of their brethren, the Jews, as it follows;

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Obadiah 1:9. Thy mighty men, O Teman — This was one of the strongest places in Idumea; and is put here, as in Amos 1:12, and elsewhere, for Idumea itself.

Mount of Esau — Mount Seir.