Malachi 1:4

New English Translation

Edom says, “Though we are devastated, we will once again build the ruined places.” So the Lord who rules over all responds, “They indeed may build, but I will overthrow. They will be known as the land of evil, the people with whom the Lord is permanently displeased.

Cross References

Job 12:14

If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

Job 34:29

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

Job 9:4

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength – who has resisted him and remained safe?

Psalm 127:1

If the Lord does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the Lord does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain.

Psalm 137:7

Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said, “Tear it down, tear it down, right to its very foundation!”

Psalm 33:10

The Lord frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom and there is no understanding, and there is no counsel against the Lord.

Isaiah 10:4

You will have no place to go, except to kneel with the prisoners, or to fall among those who have been killed. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

Isaiah 11:14

They will swoop down on the Philistine hills to the west; together they will loot the people of the east. They will take over Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be their subjects.

Isaiah 34:10

Night and day it will burn; its smoke will ascend continually. Generation after generation it will be a wasteland and no one will ever pass through it again.

Isaiah 34:5

He says, “Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. Look, it now descends on Edom, on the people I will annihilate in judgment.”

Jeremiah 31:17

Indeed, there is hope for your posterity. Your children will return to their own territory. I, the Lord, affirm it!

Jeremiah 49:20

So listen to what I, the Lord, have planned against Edom, what I intend to do to the people who live in Teman. Their little ones will be dragged off. I will completely destroy their land because of what they have done.

Jeremiah 49:7

The Lord who rules over all spoke about Edom. “Is wisdom no longer to be found in Teman? Can Edom’s counselors not give her any good advice? Has all of their wisdom turned bad?

Jeremiah 49:8

Turn and flee! Take up refuge in remote places, you people who live in Dedan. For I will bring disaster on the descendants of Esau. I have decided it is time for me to punish them.

Jeremiah 5:17

They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.

Lamentations 3:37

Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it?

Ezekiel 11:10

You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 25:13

So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die by the sword.

Ezekiel 25:14

I will exact my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will carry out in Edom my anger and rage; they will experience my vengeance, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Ezekiel 26:14

I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place where fishing nets are spread. You will never be built again, for I, the Lord, have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 35:4

I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord!

Ezekiel 35:9

I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Amos 1:11

This is what the Lord says: “Because Edom has committed three crimes – make that four! – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. He chased his brother with a sword; he wiped out his allies. In his anger he tore them apart without stopping to rest; in his fury he relentlessly attacked them.

Amos 3:15

I will destroy both the winter and summer houses. The houses filled with ivory will be ruined, the great houses will be swept away.” The Lord is speaking!

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

Amos 6:11

Indeed, look! The Lord is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.

Amos 6:2

They say to the people: “Journey over to Calneh and look at it! Then go from there to Hamath-Rabbah! Then go down to Gath of the Philistines! Are they superior to our two kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?”

Obadiah 1:1

The vision that Obadiah saw. The Lord God says this concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord. An envoy was sent among the nations, saying, “Arise! Let us make war against Edom!”

Obadiah 1:10

“Because you violently slaughtered your relatives, the people of Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be destroyed forever.

Malachi 1:3

and rejected Esau. I turned Esau’s mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals.”

Matthew 12:30

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