KJV King James Version
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
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Malachi 1:3
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
WEB World English Bible
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
ASV American Standard Version
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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.
Surrounding context — Malachi 1
1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
4 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.
5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.
6 A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and if I [be] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]עֵשָׂ֖וH6215 · e.savEsauשָׂנֵ֑אתִיH8130 · sa.neto hateוָאָשִׂ֤יםH7760 · sumto set: makeאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָרָיו֙H2022 · harmountain: mountשְׁמָמָ֔הH8077 · she.ma.mahdevastationוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]נַחֲלָת֖וֹH5159 · na.cha.lahinheritanceלְתַנּ֥וֹתH8577 · tanjackalמִדְבָּֽר׃H4057 · mid.barmouth
Cross-references
Joel 3:19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence [against] the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.Obadiah 1:10For [thy] violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.Jeremiah 49:16-18Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, [and] the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.Ezekiel 35:3-4And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I [am] against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.Isaiah 13:21-22But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.Obadiah 1:18-21And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be [any] remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken [it].Jeremiah 49:10But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he [is] not.Isaiah 35:7And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, [shall be] grass with reeds and rushes.Luke 14:26If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.Ezekiel 25:13-14Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.Jeremiah 51:37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.Isaiah 34:9-14And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.Ezekiel 36:14-15Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.Jeremiah 9:11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.Genesis 29:30-31And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.Ezekiel 36:9For, behold, I [am] for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:Ezekiel 36:7Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that [are] about you, they shall bear their shame.Ezekiel 36:3-4Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made [you] desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and [are] an infamy of the people:
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