Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
but I have hated Esau, and I have
King James Version
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Holman Bible
but I hated Esau.
International Standard Version
"Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the LORD, "yet I loved Jacob, hated Esau, turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to desert jackals.
A Conservative Version
but Esau I regarded inferior, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
American Standard Version
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
Amplified
but [in comparison with My love for Jacob] I have hated Esau (Edom), and I have made his mountains a wasteland, and have given his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.”
Bible in Basic English
And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.
Darby Translation
and I hated Esau; and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.
Julia Smith Translation
And I hated Esau, and I will set his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance for the jackals of the desert
King James 2000
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the jackals of the wilderness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
but Esau I have hated. I have made his mountain ranges a desolation, and [given] his inheritance to the jackals of [the] desert."
Modern King James verseion
and I hated Esau and made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance to be for the jackals of the wilderness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and hated Esau: Yea I have made his hills waste, and his heritage a wilderness for dragons."
NET Bible
and rejected Esau. I turned Esau's mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals."
New Heart English Bible
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
The Emphasized Bible
And, Esau, have I hated, - and made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance a dwelling for the jackals of the wilderness.
Webster
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
World English Bible
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
Youngs 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.
Themes
Dragon » A serpent or the desert
the Dragon » Found in » The wilderness
Edomites, the » Country of » Mountainous and rocky
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Morish
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Malachi 1:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Oracle Against Edom
2
I have loved you, said the LORD. Yet ye say, In what hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? said the LORD; yet I loved Jacob,
3 but I have hated Esau, and I have
Cross References
Jeremiah 49:16-18
Thy arrogance has deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dost dwell in the clefts of the rock, that dost hold the height of the mountain: though thou should make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from there, said the LORD.
Ezekiel 35:3-4
and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee waste and solitary.
Joel 3:19
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the sons of Judah because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Genesis 29:30-31
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah and served with him yet another seven years.
Deuteronomy 21:15-16
When a man has two wives, one beloved and the other hated, and they have born him sons, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is of the one that was hated,
Isaiah 13:21-22
But 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.
Isaiah 34:9-14
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into sulphur, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Isaiah 35:7
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.
Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem heaps and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 49:10
But I will make Esau bare, I will uncover his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself; his seed shall be destroyed, and his brethren and his neighbours and he shall no longer be.
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
Ezekiel 25:13-14
therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom and will cut off man and beast from her; and I will make her desolate from Teman; and those of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
Ezekiel 35:7-8
And I will make Mount Seir waste and solitary and cut off from him, he that passes out and him that returns.
Ezekiel 36:3-4
therefore prophesy and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the Gentiles, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers and are an infamy of the people;
Ezekiel 36:7
therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: I have lifted up my hand, Surely the Gentiles that are about you: they shall bear their shame.
Ezekiel 36:9
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown;
Ezekiel 36:14-15
therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations of sons any more, saith the Lord GOD.
Obadiah 1:10
For thy violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
Obadiah 1:18-21
And 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.
Luke 14:26
If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and even his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.