Malachi 1:4

New American Bible - revised edition

If Edom says, “We have been crushed, but we will rebuild the ruins,” Thus says the Lord of hosts: They indeed may build, but I will tear down, And they shall be called “territory of wickedness,” the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.

Cross References

Job 12:14

If he knocks a thing down, there is no rebuilding; if he imprisons, there is no release.

Job 34:29

If he is silent, who then can condemn? If he hides his face, who then can behold him, whether nation or individual?

Job 9:4

God is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has withstood him and remained whole?

Psalm 127:1

A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build. Unless the Lord guard the city, in vain does the guard keep watch.

Psalm 137:7

Remember, Lord, against Edom that day at Jerusalem. They said: “Level it, level it down to its foundations!”

Psalm 33:10

The Lord foils the plan of nations, frustrates the designs of peoples.

Proverbs 21:30

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

Isaiah 10:4

Lest it sink beneath the captive or fall beneath the slain? For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched!

Isaiah 11:14

But they shall swoop down on the foothills of the Philistines to the west, together they shall plunder the people of the east; Edom and Moab shall be their possessions, and the Ammonites their subjects.

Isaiah 34:10

Night and day it shall not be quenched, its smoke shall rise forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste, never again shall anyone pass through it.

Isaiah 34:5

When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, it shall come down upon Edom for judgment, upon a people under my ban.

Jeremiah 31:17

There is hope for your future—oracle of the Lord— your children shall return to their own territory.

Jeremiah 49:20

Therefore, listen to the strategy the Lord devised for Edom; The plans he has drawn up against the inhabitants of Teman: They shall be dragged away, even the smallest of the flock; their pasture shall be aghast because of them.

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Is there no more wisdom in Teman, has counsel perished from the prudent, is their wisdom gone?

Jeremiah 49:8

Flee, retreat, hide deep for lodging, inhabitants of Dedan: For I bring disaster upon Esau when I come to punish them.

Jeremiah 5:17

They will devour your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and your daughters, Devour your sheep and cattle, devour your vines and fig trees; With their swords they will beat down the fortified cities in which you trust.

Lamentations 3:37

Who speaks so that it comes to pass, unless the Lord commands it?

Ezekiel 11:10

By the sword you shall fall. At the borders of Israel I will judge you so that you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 25:13

therefore thus says the Lord God: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it human being and beast alike. I will turn it into ruins from Teman to Dedan; they shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 25:14

I will put my vengeance against Edom into the hands of my people Israel; they will deal with Edom in accord with my furious anger. Thus they shall know my vengeance!—oracle of the Lord God. Against the Philistines.

Ezekiel 26:14

I will turn you into bare rock, you will become a place for drying nets. You shall never be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken— oracle of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 35:4

Your cities I will turn into ruins, and you shall be a desolation; then you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 35:9

I will make you a desolation forever, your cities will not be inhabited, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Amos 1:11

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and now four— I will not take it back— Because he pursued his brother with the sword, suppressing all pity, Persisting in his anger, his wrath raging without end,

Amos 3:15

I will strike the winter house and the summer house; The houses of ivory shall lie in ruin, and their many rooms shall be no more— oracle of the Lord.

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you tax the destitute and exact from them levies of grain, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, you shall not live in them; Though you have planted choice vineyards, you shall not drink their wine.

Amos 6:11

Indeed, the Lord has given the command to shatter the great house to bits, and reduce the small house to rubble.

Amos 6:2

Pass over to Calneh and see, go from there to Hamath the great, and down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms, or is your territory greater than theirs?

Obadiah 1:1

The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a message from the Lord, and a herald has been sent among the nations: “Rise up, so we may go to war against it!”

Obadiah 1:10

Because of violence to your brother Jacob, disgrace will cover you, you will be done away with forever!

Malachi 1:3

Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?—oracle of the Lord. I loved Jacob, but rejected Esau; I made his mountains a waste, his heritage a desert for jackals.

Matthew 12:30

Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.