Malachi 1:3

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Summary

Malachi 1:3

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Hated

Genesis 29:30

Deuteronomy 21:15

Luke 14:26

Laid

The

Jeremiah 51:37

Bible References

Hated

Jacob slept with Rachel too. He loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.

If a man have two wives and loves one more than the other. The first son of either wife is the man's first-born son, even if the boy's mother is the wife he does not love. A man near death and dividing up his property must give a double share to his first-born son. This is because he was the first to be born.

You who come to me may not be my disciple unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters and yourself.

Laid

Edom's streams will be turned to tar. Its soil will be turned to burning sulfur. Its land will become blazing tar.

You have frightened other people. Your arrogance has deceived you. You live on rocky cliffs and occupy the highest places in the hills. Even though you build your nest as high as an eagle, I will bring you down from there, proclaims Jehovah.

therefore the Lord Jehovah says: 'I will also stretch out my hand (exert my power) against Edom and cut off man and beast from it. I will lay it waste! From Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

Therefore prophesy and say: 'The Lord Jehovah says: For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side. That way you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have become a subject of conversation for the people.

Egypt will be desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness. This is because of the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

You will be covered with shame for the violence done to your brother Jacob. You will be destroyed and disgraced for a very long time.

The

But desert animals will lie down there. Their houses will be full of owls! Shaggy goats (demons) will play there and ostriches will dance there.

Its palaces are covered with thorns. Its fortresses have nettles and thistles. It will become a home for jackals and a place for ostriches.

The parched ground will become a lake, and dry land will be filled with springs. Marsh grass and reeds will grow where jackals used to live.

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. It will be a gathering place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah desolation, without inhabitant.

Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.