Malachi 1:3

Modern English Version

but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a desolation and left his inheritance for the jackals of the desert.

Cross References

Genesis 25:23

Then the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from your body; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

Isaiah 35:7

The parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water; in the habitation of jackals where each lay, there shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

Jeremiah 49:10

But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places so that he will not be able to hide himself. His seed is devastated, and his brothers, and his neighbors, and he is no more.

Jeremiah 49:20

Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord that He has planned against Edom, and His purposes that He has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock will drag them out; surely He will make their habitations desolate because of them.

Jeremiah 49:33

Hazor will become a dwelling for jackals and a desolation forever. No man will abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Is there no more wisdom 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 that I punish him.

Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins and a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Lamentations 4:22

The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; He shall exile you no longer. He shall punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins!

Ezekiel 36:7

Therefore, thus says the Lord God: I have lifted up My hand that surely the nations who are about you shall themselves bear their invectives.

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 will become a desolation, and Edom a desolate wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah— they shed innocent blood in their land.

Obadiah 1:10

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

Luke 14:26

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.