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Malachi 1:3
“but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
Malachi 1:3 in the King James Version
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.Read Malachi 1:3 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Malachi 1
An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.
I have loved you," says Yahweh. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob;
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;" thus says Yahweh of Armies, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.
Your eyes will see, and you will say, "Yahweh is great--even beyond the border of Israel!
Cross references for Malachi 1:3
- Joel 3:19
Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
- Obadiah 1:10
For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
- Ezekiel 35:3-4
and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you...
- Jeremiah 49:16-18
As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh. ...
- Isaiah 35:7
The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.
- Jeremiah 51:37
Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
- Ezekiel 25:13-14
therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the sword. I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the han...
- Ezekiel 36:3-4
therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of...
- Genesis 29:30-31
He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
- Jeremiah 9:11
I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
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About Malachi
A call to return to God and a promise of the coming messenger (John the Baptist).
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