Malachi 1:3

but Esau I have hated. I have made his mountains an abandoned devastation, and I have made his inheritance a place for the jackals of the wilderness.”

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

In Context

2“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob's brother?” declares Yahweh. “Yet I have loved Jacob,

4If Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will rebuild the ruins,” Yahweh of hosts will say, “They may rebuild, but I will throw down again. Others will call them 'The country of wickedness' and 'The people whom Yahweh has cursed forever.'

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:15If a man has two wives and one is loved and the other is hated, and they have both borne him children—both the beloved wife and the hated wife—if the firstborn son is of her that is hated,

Isaiah 34:9The streams of Edom will be turned into pitch, her dust into sulfur, 1 and her land will become burning pitch. 1

Isaiah 34:14The wild animals and the hyenas will meet there, and the wild goats will cry to one another. 1 Nocturnal animals will settle there and find for themselves a place of rest. 1

Jeremiah 9:11So I will turn Jerusalem into piles of ruins, a hideout for jackals. 1 I will make Judah's cities ruined places without inhabitants.” 1

Jeremiah 49:10But I have stripped Esau bare. I have revealed his hiding places. 1 So he will not be able to hide himself. His children, his brothers, and his neighbors are destroyed, and he is gone. 1

Jeremiah 51:37Babylon will become heaps of rubble, a den of jackals, a horror, 1 an object of hissing, where there are no inhabitants. 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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