Malachi 1:4

Whereas 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

3But I hated Esav, 1 and his mountains and his nachalah I laid waste 1 into wasteland for the jackals of the midbar. 1

5And your eyes shall see, 1 and ye shall say: 1 Hashem is gadol (great) even beyond the Gevul Yisroel. 1

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Cross References

Job 9:4G-d is chochom in lev, and mighty in ko'ach; 1 who hath hardened himself to defy Him and remained unhurt? 1

Job 34:29When He giveth quietness, who then can condemn? 1 When He hideth His panim, who then can behold Him? 1 Whether it be a nation, or an individual only? 1

Psalms 127:1(Shir HaMa'alot, of Sh'lomo) 1 they that build it labor in vain; 1 except Hashem is shomer over the city, 1 the shomair (watchman) stands guard in vain. 1

Proverbs 21:30There is no chochmah nor tevunah (understanding) 1 nor etzah against Hashem. 1

Isaiah 10:4Without Me they shall bow down under the prisoners, 1 and they shall fall under the slain. 1 For all this His anger is not turned away, 1 but His yad is upraised still. 1

Isaiah 11:14But they shall swoop down upon the shoulders of the Pelishtim toward the west; 1 they shall plunder them of the east together; 1 they shall lay their yad upon Edom and Moav; 1 and the Bnei Ammon shall obey them. 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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