Malachi 1:3

But I hated Esav, 1 and his mountains and his nachalah I laid waste 1 into wasteland for the jackals of the midbar. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2I have loved you, saith Hashem. 1 Yet ye say: Wherein hast Thou loved us? 1 Was not Esav Ya'akovʼs brother? saith Hashem; 1 yet I loved Ya'akov, 1

4Whereas Edom saith: 1 We are dashed to pieces, 1 but we will return and rebuild the ruins; 1 thus saith Hashem Tzva'os: 1 They may build, but I will throw down; 1 and they shall call them, Gevul Rishah (territory of wickedness), 1 and the people against whom Hashem hath indignation ad olam (for ever). 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:15If an ish have two nashim, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him banim, both the beloved and the hated; and if the bechor be hers that was hated;

Isaiah 34:9And the streams thereof + 34:9 i.e., of Edom shall be turned into zefet (pitch, tar), 1 and the aphar (dust) thereof into gofrit (burning sulfur), 1 and the land thereof shall become burning zefet (pitch, tar). 1

Isaiah 34:14The tziyyim (martens) shall also encounter iyyim (wild cats), 1 and a sa'ir (wild goat) calls to its companion, 1 and lilit (night creature) dwells there 1 and finds for itself a mano'ach (place of rest). 1

Jeremiah 9:11Who is the ish hechacham (wise man), that may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of Hashem hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what HaAretz perisheth and is scorched like a midbar, that none passeth through?

Jeremiah 49:10But I have stripped Esav bare, 1 I have uncovered his hiding places, 1 and he shall not be able to hide himself; 1 his zera are plundered, 1 and his brethren and his shchenim (neighbors), 1 and he is no more. 1

Jeremiah 51:37And Bavel shall become heaps of ruin, 1 a ma'on for jackals, 1 a horror to behold, astonishment, and a hissing, 1 without an inhabitant. 1

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 →

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