Malachi 1:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Esau's descendants may say, “Although our nation Edom is in ruins, we will rebuild.” But I, the LORD All-Powerful, promise to tear down whatever they build. Then everyone will know that I will never stop being angry with them as long as they are so sinful.

Cross References

Job 12:14

No one can rebuild what he destroys, or release those he has imprisoned.

Job 34:29

When God does nothing, can any person or nation find fault with him?

Job 9:4

God is wise and powerful— who could possibly oppose him and win?

Psalm 127:1

Without the help of the LORD it is useless to build a home or to guard a city.

Psalm 137:7

Our LORD, punish the Edomites! Because the day Jerusalem fell, they shouted, “Completely destroy the city! Tear down every building!”

Psalm 33:10

The LORD destroys the plans and spoils the schemes of the nations.

Proverbs 21:30

No matter how much you know or what plans you make, you can't defeat the LORD.

Isaiah 10:4

How will you escape being captured or killed? The Lord is still angry, and he isn't through with you yet!

Isaiah 11:14

Instead, they will get together and attack the Philistines in the west. Then they will defeat the Edomites, the Moabites, and the Ammonites in the east. They will rule those people and take from them whatever they want.

Isaiah 34:10

It will burn night and day and never stop smoking. Edom will be a desert, generation after generation; no one will ever travel through that land.

Isaiah 34:5

After the sword of the LORD has done what it wants to the skies above, it will come down on Edom, the nation that the LORD has doomed for destruction.

Jeremiah 49:20

Listen to my plans for you, people of Edom. Your children will be dragged off and your country destroyed.

Jeremiah 49:7

The LORD All-Powerful says about Edom: Wisdom and common sense have vanished from Teman. I will send disaster to punish you descendants of Esau, so anyone from Dedan had better turn round and run back home.

Jeremiah 5:17

This nation will eat your crops and livestock; they will leave no fruit on your vines or trees. And although you feel safe behind thick walls, your towns will be destroyed and your children killed.

Lamentations 3:37

No one can do anything without the Lord's approval.

Ezekiel 11:10

You will be killed in your own country, but not before you realize that I, the LORD, have done these things.

Ezekiel 25:13

So I will punish Edom by killing all its people and livestock. It will be an empty wasteland all the way from Teman to Dedan.

Ezekiel 25:14

I will send my own people to take revenge on the Edomites by making them feel my fierce anger. And when I punish them, they will know that I am the LORD God.”

Ezekiel 26:14

because I will turn you into a bare rock where fishermen can dry their nets. And you will never rebuild your city. I, the LORD God, make this promise.

Ezekiel 35:4

leaving your towns in ruins. Your land will be a desert, and then you will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 35:9

and your land will lie in ruins for ever. No one will live in your towns ever again. You will know that I am the LORD.

Amos 1:11

The LORD said: I will punish Edom for countless crimes, and I won't change my mind. They killed their own relatives and were so terribly furious that they showed no mercy.

Amos 3:15

I will tear down winter homes and summer homes. Houses decorated with ivory and all other mansions will be gone for ever. I, the LORD, have spoken!

Amos 5:11

you abuse the poor and demand heavy taxes from them. You have built expensive homes, but you won't enjoy them; you have planted vineyards, but you will get no wine.

Amos 6:11

At the LORD's command, houses great and small will be smashed to pieces.

Amos 6:2

Look what happened to the cities of Calneh, powerful Hamath, and Gath in Philistia. Are you greater than any of those kingdoms?

Obadiah 1:1

The LORD God gave Obadiah a message about Edom, and this is what we heard: “I, the LORD, have sent a messenger with orders for the nations to attack Edom.”

Obadiah 1:10

You were cruel to your relatives, the descendants of Jacob. Now you will be destroyed, disgraced for ever.

Malachi 1:3

instead of Esau. And I turned Esau's hill country into a barren desert where jackals roam.

Matthew 12:30

If you are not on my side, you are against me. If you don't gather in the harvest with me, you scatter it.