Devine Scripture

Malachi 1:4

Malachi chapter 1 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Whereas 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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Whereas 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.

Context

v.3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

v.4This passage

v.5And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Jehovah be magnified beyond the border of Israel.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 21:30

    There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Jehovah.

  • Isaiah 11:14

    And they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shall they despoil the children of the east: they shall put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

  • Ezekiel 25:14

    And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • Job 34:29

    When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man:

  • Job 12:14

    Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

  • Isaiah 34:10

    It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.