Malachi 1:3

And, Esau, have I hated,— and made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance [a dwelling] for the jackals of the wilderness.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 Yahweh, and yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Is not Esau, brother, to Jacob? enquireth Yahweh, Yet have I loved Jacob,

4Whereas Edom, may say, We are laid waste, but we will again build the desolate places, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, They, may build, but, I, will pull down,— and men shall call them, The Boundary of Lawlessness, and, The people with whom Yahweh hath indignation unto times age-abiding;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:15When a man shall have two wives—the one beloved and, the other hated, and they have borne him sons, both she that is beloved, and she that is hated,—and it shall be that the firstborn son belongeth to her that is hated,

Isaiah 34:9Then shall the torrents thereof be turned into pitch, And the dust thereof, into brimstone,—So shall her land become burning pitch:

Isaiah 34:14Then shall criers meet with howlers, And, the shaggy creature, unto his fellow, shall call,—Only, there, shall, the night-spectre, Make her settlement, And find for herself a place of rest:

Jeremiah 9:11Thus will I give up Jerusalem To heaps, A habitation for jackals,—And the cities of Judah, will I give up to desolation, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 49:10But, I, have stripped Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, And to conceal himself, shall he not be able! Spoiled, are his seed, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

Jeremiah 51:37Thus shall Babylon become—Heaps A habitation of jackals An astonishment, and A hissing, Without inhabitant.

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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