Malachi 1:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Though Edom says, ‘We have been devastated, but we will rebuild  the ruins,’ the Lord of Armies says this: ‘They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country  and the people the Lord has cursed  for ever.

Cross References

Ezekiel 25:14

I will take my vengeance  on Edom through my people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to my anger and wrath. So they will know my vengeance. This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 35:9

I will make you a perpetual desolation; your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:17

There is hope for your future   – this is the  Lord’s declaration – and your children will return to their own territory.

Isaiah 34:10

It will never go out #– #day or night. Its smoke will go up for ever. It will be desolate, from generation to generation; no one will pass through it for ever and ever.

Isaiah 34:5

When my sword has drunk its fill  , in the heavens, it will then come down on Edom and on the people I have set apart for destruction.

Isaiah 11:14

But they will swoop down on the Philistine flank to the west. Together they will plunder the people of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be their subjects.

Malachi 1:3

but I hated Esau.  I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.’

Amos 6:2

Cross over to Calneh  and see; go from there to great Hamath; then go down to Gath  of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?

Ezekiel 11:10

You will fall by the sword,  and I will judge you at the border of Israel.  Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Lamentations 3:37

Who is there who speaks and it happens, unless the Lord has ordained it?

Isaiah 10:4

There will be nothing to do except crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, and no counsel will prevail against the  Lord.

Job 34:29

But when God is silent, who can declare him guilty? When he hides his face, who can see him? Yet he watches over both individuals and nations,

Job 12:14

Whatever he tears down cannot be rebuilt; whoever he imprisons cannot be released.

Job 9:4

God is wise  and all-powerful. Who has opposed him and come out unharmed?

Matthew 12:30

Anyone who is not with me is against me,   and anyone who does not gather with me scatters.

Jeremiah 5:17

They will consume your harvest and your food. They will consume your sons and your daughters. They will consume your flocks and your herds. They will consume your vines and your fig trees. With the sword they will destroy your fortified cities  in which you trust.

Jeremiah 49:8

Run! Turn back! Lie low, residents of Dedan, for I will bring Esau’s calamity on him at the time I punish him.

Jeremiah 49:20

Therefore, hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Edom and the strategies he has devised against the people of Teman:  The flock’s little lambs will certainly be dragged away,  and their grazing land will be made desolate because of them.

Ezekiel 25:13

therefore this is what the Lord God says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off both people and animals from it. I will make it a wasteland; they will fall by the sword from Teman to Dedan.

Ezekiel 26:14

I will turn you into a bare rock, and you will be a place to spread nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the Lord, have spoken.’  This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 35:4

I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Amos 3:15

I will demolish the winter house and the summer house; the houses inlaid with ivory  will be destroyed, and the great houses  will come to an end. This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

Amos 6:11

For the Lord commands: The large house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.

Obadiah 1:1

The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord God has said about Edom: We have heard a message from the  Lord; an envoy has been sent  among the nations: ‘Rise up,  and let’s go to war against her.’

Obadiah 1:10

You will be covered with shame and destroyed for ever because of violence done to your brother Jacob.

Jeremiah 49:7

About Edom,  this is what the Lord of Armies says: Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom rotted away?

Amos 1:11

The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Edom for three crimes, even four, because he pursued his brother with the sword. He stifled his compassion, his anger tore at him   continually, and he harboured his rage incessantly.