Malachi 1:4
Because one will say, Idumea has been overthrown, but let us return and rebuild the desolate places; thus saith the Lord Almighty, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The borders of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord has set himself for ever.
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Job 9:4For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?
Job 34:29And he will give quiet, and who will condemn? and he will hide his face, and who shall see him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man also:
Psalms 127:1A Song of Degrees. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord; who walk in his ways.
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, there is no courage, there is no counsel against the ungodly.
Isaiah 10:4that ye may not fall into + 10:4 Heb. and Alex. + ‘and they shall fall under the slain’.captivity? For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.
Isaiah 11:14And they shall fly in the ships of the Philistines: they shall at the same time spoil the + 11:14 sc. the west.sea, and them that come from the east, and Idumea: and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the children of Ammon shall first obey them.
Matthew Henry on Malachi 1:2-6
Malachi God's prophets were his witnesses to his church, each in his day, for several ages, witnesses for him and his authority, witnesses against sin and sinners, attesting the true intents of God's providences in his dealings with his people then and the kind intentions of his grace concerning his church in the days of the Messiah, to whom all the prophets bore witness, for they all agreed in their testimony; and now we have only one witness more to call, and we have done with our evidence; and though he be the… Read the whole commentary →