Malachi 1:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ezek 35:3-4 : 3 And say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you most desolate. 4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
  • Joel 3:19 : 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
  • Jer 49:16-18 : 16 Your terribleness 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 make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD. 17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues. 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, nor shall a son of man reside in it.
  • Jer 51:37 : 37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
  • Ezek 25:13-14 : 13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord GOD.
  • Obad 1:10 : 10 For your violence against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
  • Obad 1:18-21 : 18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall kindle them and devour them, and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken. 19 Those of the South shall possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the plain the Philistines; they shall possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. 20 The captives of this host of the children of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the South. 21 Then deliverers shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 If any man 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.
  • Ezek 35:7-8 : 7 Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him who passes out and him who returns. 8 And I will fill its mountains with its slain men: in your hills, and in your valleys, and in all your rivers, shall they fall who are slain with the sword.
  • Ezek 36:3-4 : 3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the rest of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people: 4 Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and mockery to the rest of the nations that are all around;
  • Ezek 36:7 : 7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; I have lifted up my hand, Surely the nations that are about you, they shall bear their own shame.
  • Ezek 36:9 : 9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown:
  • Ezek 36:14-15 : 14 Therefore you shall devour men no more, nor bereave your nations any more, says the Lord GOD. 15 Neither will I cause men to hear in you the shame of the nations any more, nor shall you bear the reproach of the people any more, nor shall you cause your nations to fall any more, says the Lord GOD.
  • Gen 29:30-31 : 30 And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him another seven years. 31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
  • Deut 21:15-16 : 15 If a man has two wives, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers that was hated, 16 Then it shall be, when he makes his sons to inherit what he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, who is indeed the firstborn:
  • Isa 13:21-22 : 21 But wild beasts of the desert will lie there; and their houses will be full of doleful creatures; and owls will dwell there, and satyrs will dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands will cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
  • Isa 34:9-9 : 9 And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; its smoke shall ascend forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever. 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl and the raven shall dwell in it: and He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses: and it shall be a habitation for dragons, and a court for owls. 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
  • Isa 35:7 : 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water; in the habitation of jackals, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
  • Jer 49:10 : 10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself: his descendants are spoiled, along with his brothers and his neighbors, and he is no more.

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  • Mal 1:2
    80%

    2I have loved you, says the LORD. Yet you say, How have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the LORD. Yet I loved Jacob,

  • Rom 9:13
    79%

    13As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

  • Mal 1:4
    77%

    4Though Edom says, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus says 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 has indignation forever.

  • Gen 27:41
    76%

    41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.

  • Amos 6:8
    75%

    8The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, says the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the pride of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

  • Jer 49:10
    75%

    10But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself: his descendants are spoiled, along with his brothers and his neighbors, and he is no more.

  • Amos 1:11-12
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    73%

    11Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever:

    12But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

  • Obad 1:8-10
    3 verses
    73%

    8Shall I not in that day, says the LORD, even destroy the wise men from Edom, and understanding from the mountain of Esau?

    9And your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, so that everyone from the mountain of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

    10For your violence against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.

  • Obad 1:18
    73%

    18The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall kindle them and devour them, and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.

  • Jer 12:8
    72%

    8My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest; it cries out against Me; therefore I have hated it.

  • Hos 9:15
    72%

    15All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them; for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.

  • Obad 1:6
    71%

    6How Esau's things are searched out! How his hidden treasures are sought after!

  • Obad 1:2
    71%

    2Behold, I have made you small among the nations; you are greatly despised.

  • Gen 25:28
    71%

    28And Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

  • Jer 9:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

    11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

  • Ezek 35:7
    70%

    7Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him who passes out and him who returns.

  • Ps 139:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against You?

    22I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.

  • Ps 79:7
    70%

    7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

  • Ezek 35:15
    70%

    15As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

  • Jer 17:3
    70%

    3O my mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures to the spoil, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders.

  • Mic 3:2
    70%

    2Who hate good and love evil; who strip their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

  • Ezek 25:14
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    14And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord GOD.

  • Jer 10:25
    69%

    25Pour out your fury upon the heathen that do not know you, and upon the families that do not call on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

  • Ezek 35:5
    69%

    5Because you have had a perpetual hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

  • Jer 49:17
    69%

    17Also Edom shall be a desolation: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.

  • Jer 49:8
    69%

    8Flee, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.

  • Ezek 25:12
    69%

    12Thus says the Lord GOD; Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;

  • Ezek 36:5
    69%

    5Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with spiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.

  • Deut 2:5
    69%

    5Do not meddle with them; for I will not give you any of their land, not even a foot's breadth, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

  • Lam 3:66
    68%

    66Pursue and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

  • Ezek 35:3
    68%

    3And say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you most desolate.

  • Lam 2:2
    68%

    2The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in His wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground: He has defiled the kingdom and its princes.

  • Gen 25:34
    68%

    34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and rose up and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

  • Ps 34:21
    68%

    21Evil shall slay the wicked: and those who hate the righteous shall be desolate.

  • Gen 36:8
    67%

    8Thus Esau dwelt in the mountain of Seir. Esau is Edom.

  • Josh 24:4
    67%

    4And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.