Malachi 1:4

American King James Version (1999)

Whereas Edom said, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus said 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 for ever.

Cross References

Job 12:14

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

Job 34:29

When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

Job 9:4

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered?

Psalm 127:1

Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.

Psalm 137:7

Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.

Psalm 33:10

The LORD brings the counsel of the heathen to nothing: he makes the devices of the people of none effect.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

Isaiah 10:4

Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 11:14

But they shall fly on the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

Isaiah 34:10

It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

Isaiah 34:5

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down on Idumea, and on the people of my curse, to judgment.

Jeremiah 31:17

And there is hope in your end, said the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border.

Jeremiah 49:20

Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom, thus said the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

Jeremiah 49:8

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

Jeremiah 5:17

And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fenced cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

Lamentations 3:37

Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?

Ezekiel 11:10

You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 25:13

Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out my hand on 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.

Ezekiel 25:14

And I will lay my vengeance on 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, said the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 26:14

And I will make you like the top of a rock: you shall be a place to spread nets on; you shall be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, said the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 35:4

I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 35:9

I will make you perpetual desolations, and your cities shall not return: and you shall know that I am the LORD.

Amos 1:11

Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

Amos 3:15

And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, said the LORD.

Amos 5:11

For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

Amos 6:11

For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

Amos 6:2

Pass you to Calneh, and see; and from there go you to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

Obadiah 1:1

The vision of Obadiah. Thus said the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumor from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise you, and let us rise up against her in battle.

Obadiah 1:10

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

Malachi 1:3

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

Matthew 12:30

He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with me scatters abroad.