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Malachi 1:3

Esau

1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.

2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
KJV
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
WEB
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
ASV
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
DARBY
and I hated Esau; and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.
BLB
and Esau I have hated, and I set his mountains [as] a desolation and his inheritance for the jackals of the desert.”
ÅB
men hatet Esau og gjort hans fjell til en ørken og hans arv til en bolig for ørkenens sjakaler.
OTB
men Esau har jeg hatet, og jeg har gjort hans fjell til en ødemark og gitt hans arv til ørkenens sjakaler."
B1930
men hatet Esau og gjort hans fjell til en ørken og hans arv til en bolig for ørkenens sjakaler.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Obadiah 1:10

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

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  • Joel 3:19

    Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

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  • Ezekiel 35:3–4

    And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.

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  • Jeremiah 49:16–18

    Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

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  • Ezekiel 36:14–15

    Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.

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  • Ezekiel 36:3–4

    Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

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  • Jeremiah 51:37

    And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

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  • Jeremiah 49:10

    But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

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