Your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, ¹  so that ²  everyone ³  will be destroyed ⁴  from Esau’s mountain!

biblegateway Oba 1:9

"Then your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman, So that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

Teman, your warriors will be terrified so that everyone from the hill country of Esau will be destroyed by slaughter.

"Teman, your warriors will be terrified. Everyone on Esau’s mountain will be slaughtered.

biblegateway Oba 1:9

Your warriors, O Teman, will be terrified, and everyone in Esau’s mountains will be cut down in the slaughter.

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

bibleoremus Oba 1:9

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

Then your warriors, Teman, will be so terror-stricken that no survivors will be left on the mountains of Esau.

biblegateway Oba 1:9

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.

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.

biblegateway Oba 1:9

Your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, ¹  so that ²  everyone ³  will be destroyed ⁴  from Esau’s mountain!

¹ sn Teman, like Sela, was a prominent city of Edom. The name Teman is derived from the name of a grandson of Esau (cf. Gen 36:11). Here it is a synecdoche of part for whole, standing for all of Edom.

² tn The Hebrew word used here (לְמַעַן, lÿma’an) usually expresses purpose. The sense in this context, however, is more likely that of result.

³ tn Heb “a man,” meaning “every single person” here; cf. KJV “every one.”

⁴ tn Heb “cut off” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV, NLT “cut down”; CEV “wiped out.”