Malachi 1:4

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Summary

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.

But

Isaiah 9:9

James 4:13

They shall build

The border

Jeremiah 31:17

Ezekiel 11:10

Amos 6:2

The people

Bible References

But

And the people shall know, all they of Ephraim and the inhabitants of Shomeron, in pride and in greatness of heart, saying,

Come on now, ye saying, To day or to morrow let us go to this city, and do there one year, and let us trade, and derive profit:

They shall build

Wise of heart and strong of power: who was hard before him and shall be requited?

Behold, he will pull down and it shall not be built up: he will shut up against man and it shall not be opened.

And he will give quiet, and who shall disturb? and he will hide the face, and who shall look upon him? and against a nation and against man wholly:

Song of ascensions to Solomon. If Jehovah shall not build the house, they building it, in it labored in vain. If Jehovah shall not watch the city, he watching, watched in vain.

No wisdom and no understanding, and no counsel against Jehovah.

Not to bow under the bound, and they shall fell under the slain; in all this his anger turned not back, and yet his hand stretched out

Who this saying, And it shall be Jehovah commanding not?

He not being with me is against me; and he not gathering with me; scatters.

The border

And there is hope to thy latter state, says Jehovah, and thy sons turned back to their bound.

By the sword shall ye fall upon the bound of Israel; I will judge you and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

Pass through Calneh, and see; and go ye from thence to Hamath the great: and go down to the wine-press of the rovers: are they good above these kingdoms? or their bound great above your bound?

The people

And I hated Esau, and I will set his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance for the jackals of the desert

Remember, O Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; they saying, Make bare, make bare, even to the foundations in her.

And they flew upon the shoulder of the rovers to the sea; together shall they plunder the sons of the east: Edom and Moab the sending forth of their hand, and the sons of Ammon their audience.

For my sword was drunk in the heavens: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of destruction for judgment

Who this coming from Edom, splendid with garments from Bozra? this adorned in his attire, bowing himself in his strength? I, speaking in justice, great for salvation.

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, dwelling in the land of Uz; also upon thee shall the cup pass: thou shalt be drunken, and make thyself naked.

And I gave my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they did in Edom according to mine anger and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord Jehovah.

I will give thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye knew that I am Jehovah.