Malachi 1:3-4

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3} but I hated Esau.^(A) I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”^(B)

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4} Though Edom says: “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild^(a) the ruins,” the Lord of Hosts says this: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country^(C) and the people the Lord has cursed^(b) forever.^(D)

Footnotes:

a. Malachi 1:4: Or will return and build

b. Malachi 1:4: Or Lord is angry with

Cross references:

A. Malachi 1:3: Genesis 25:23; Romans 9:10-13

B. Malachi 1:3: Isaiah 34:5-17; Jeremiah 49:7-22; Ezekiel 35:1-15

C. Malachi 1:4: Malachi 3:12; Malachi 3:15

D. Malachi 1:4: Isaiah 34:5-17; Jeremiah 49:17-18; Malachi 1:14; Malachi 2:2; Malachi 3:9; Malachi 4:6