Malachi 1:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ but I have hated Esau; I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ and I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ But [in comparison with the degree of love I have for Jacob] I have hated Esau [Edom] and have laid waste his mountains, and his heritage I have given to the jackals of the wilderness. [Rom. 9:13, 16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

Common English Bible

³ but I rejected Esau. I turned Esau’s mountains into desolation, his inheritance into a wilderness for jackals.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ but held hatred for Esau? And I have set his mountains in solitude, and his inheritance with the serpents of the desert.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert.

Malachi 1:3 Cross References

Genesis 25:23

And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples, born of you, shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the elder shall serve the younger.”

Isaiah 35:7

the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; the haunt of jackals shall become a swamp, the grass shall become reeds and rushes.

Jeremiah 49:10

But I have stripped Esau bare, I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.

Jeremiah 49:20

Therefore hear the plan which the Lord has made against Edom and the purposes which he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman: Even the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.

Jeremiah 49:33

Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals, an everlasting waste; no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.”

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

Jeremiah 49:8

Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time when I punish him.

Jeremiah 51:37

and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Lamentations 4:22

The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished, he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish, he will uncover your sins.

Ezekiel 36:7

therefore thus says the Lord God: I swear that the nations that are round about you shall themselves suffer reproach.

Ezekiel 36:9

For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

Joel 3:19

“Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Obadiah 1:10

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.

Luke 14:26

“If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.