Parallel Verses
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.
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 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, says Jehovah. But you say, In what have You loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says Jehovah; yet I loved Jacob, 3 and I hated Esau and made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance to be for the jackals of the wilderness. 4 If Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places. So says Jehovah of Hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them the region of wickedness, and the people with whom Jehovah is indignant forever.
Cross References
Jeremiah 49:16-18
Your dreadfulness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.
Ezekiel 35:3-4
And say to it, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a ruin and a waste.
Joel 3:19
Egypt shall be a ruin, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, from violence done to the sons of Judah, whose innocent blood they poured out in their land.
Genesis 29:30-31
And he also went in to Rachel. He also loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him still seven more years.
Deuteronomy 21:15-16
If a man has two wives, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him sons, the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son was of her that was hated,
Isaiah 13:21-22
But the wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and he-goats shall dance there.
Isaiah 34:9-14
And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust to brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.
Isaiah 35:7
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land shall become springs of water in the home of jackals, in its lair, and a place for the reed and rush.
Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem ruins, a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without a living soul.
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 ravaged, and his brothers, and his neighbors, and he is gone.
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a home for jackals, a horror and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
Ezekiel 25:13-14
therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: I will also stretch out My hand on Edom, and will cut man and beast off from it; and I will make it a waste from Teman, even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.
Ezekiel 35:7-8
So I will make Mount Seir a ruin, and cut off from it the one passing through, and the one returning.
Ezekiel 36:3-4
Therefore prophesy and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Because of the wasting and crushing of you from all around, that you might be a possession to the rest of the nations, and you were lifted up on the tip of the tongue, and the talking of the people;
Ezekiel 36:7
Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: I have lifted up My hand; surely the nations around you shall bear their shame.
Ezekiel 36:9
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.
Ezekiel 36:14-15
so you shall devour men no more, nor shall you bereave your nations any more, says the Lord Jehovah.
Obadiah 1:10
Shame shall cover you from the violence against your brother Jacob, and you shall be cut off forever.
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 shall be for stubble. And they shall kindle in them and burn them up. And no survivor shall be to the house of Esau; for Jehovah has spoken it.
Luke 14:26
If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.