Malachi 1:3
Malachi chapter 1 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
Context
v.2I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob;
v.3This passage
v.4Whereas Edom saith, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 36:14
therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nation any more, saith the Lord Jehovah;
- Isaiah 35:7
And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
- Jeremiah 49:10
But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brethren, and his neighbors; and he is not.
- Obadiah 1:10
For the violence done to thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
- Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
- Ezekiel 36:7
therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I have sworn, saying, Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.