Malachi 1:3
Is not Esau Jacob's brother? — an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.
Young's Literal Translation
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, said Jehovah, And ye have said, 'In what hast Thou loved us?'
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:15'When a man hath two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne to him sons (the loved one and the hated one), and the first-born son hath been to the hated one;
Isaiah 34:9And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.
Isaiah 34:14And met have Ziim with Aiim, And the goat for its companion calleth, Only there rested hath the night-owl, And hath found for herself a place of rest.
Jeremiah 9:11And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 49:10For I — I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, And to be hidden he is not able, Spoiled [is] his seed, and his brethren, And his neighbours, and he is not.
Jeremiah 51:37And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, 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 →