Verse 4

Because Edom saith, `We have been made poor, And we turn back and we build the wastes,' Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They do build, and I do destroy, And `men' have called to them, `O region of wickedness,' `O people whom Jehovah defied to the age.'

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 9:9-9 : 9 And the people have known -- all of it, Ephraim, and the inhabitant of Samaria, In pride and in greatness of heart, saying, 10 `Bricks have fallen, and hewn work we build, Sycamores have been cut down, and cedars we renew.'
  • Ezek 25:14 : 14 And I have given My vengeance on Edom, By the hand of My people Israel, And they have done in Edom, According to My anger, and according to My fury, And they have known My vengeance, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
  • Ezek 35:9 : 9 Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known that I `am' Jehovah.
  • Amos 6:2 : 2 Pass ye over `to' Calneh and see, And go thence `to' Hamath the great, And go down `to' Gath of the Philistines, Are `they' better than these kingdoms? Greater `is' their border than your border?
  • Mal 1:3 : 3 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.
  • Matt 12:30 : 30 `He who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me, doth scatter.
  • Jas 4:13-16 : 13 Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;' 14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing; 15 instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;' 16 and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;
  • Job 9:4 : 4 Wise in heart and strong in power -- Who hath hardened toward Him and is at peace?
  • Job 12:14 : 14 Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.
  • Job 34:29 : 29 And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, `It is' the same.
  • Ps 127:1 : 1 A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.
  • Ps 137:7 : 7 Remember, Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, `Rase, rase to its foundation!'
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.
  • Isa 10:4 : 4 Without Me it hath bowed down In the place of a bound one, And in the place of the slain they fall. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.
  • Isa 10:15-16 : 15 -- Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing with it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood! 16 Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness, And under his honour He kindleth a burning As the burning of a fire.
  • Isa 11:14 : 14 And they have flown on the shoulder of the Philistines westward, Together they spoil the sons of the east, Edom and Moab sending forth their hand, And sons of Ammon obeying them.
  • Isa 34:5 : 5 For soaked in the heavens was My sword, Lo, on Edom it cometh down, On the people of My curse for judgment.
  • Isa 34:10 : 10 By night and by day she is not quenched, To the age go up doth her smoke, From generation to generation she is waste, For ever and ever, none is passing into her.
  • Isa 63:1-6 : 1 `Who `is' this coming from Edom? With dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is honourable in his clothing, Travelling in the abundance of his power?' -- `I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.' 2 `Wherefore `is' thy clothing red? And thy garments as treading in a wine fat?' 3 -- `A wine-press I have trodden by myself, And of the peoples there is no one with me, And I tread them in mine anger, And I trample them in my fury, Sprinkled is their strength on my garments, And all my clothing I have polluted. 4 For the day of vengeance `is' in my heart, And the year of my redeemed hath come. 5 And I look attentively, and there is none helping, And I am astonished that there is none supporting, And give salvation to me doth mine own arm. And my wrath -- it hath supported me. 6 And I tread down peoples in mine anger, And I make them drunk in my fury, And I bring down to earth their strength.
  • Jer 31:17 : 17 And there is hope for thy latter end, An affirmation of Jehovah, And the sons have turned back `to' their border.
  • Lam 3:37 : 37 Who `is' this -- he hath said, and it is, `And' the Lord hath not commanded `it'?
  • Lam 4:21-22 : 21 Joy and rejoice, O daughter of Edom, Dwelling in the land of Uz, Even unto thee pass over doth a cup, Thou art drunk, and makest thyself naked. 22 Completed `is' thy iniquity, daughter of Zion, He doth not add to remove thee, He hath inspected thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom, He hath removed `thee' because of thy sins!
  • Ezek 11:10 : 10 By the sword ye do fall, On the border of Israel I do judge you, And ye have known that I `am' Jehovah.