Malachi 1:4

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Edom may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins.” But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord.

Cross References

Job 12:14

What he tears down cannot be rebuilt; those he imprisons cannot be released.

Job 34:29

But if he remains silent, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, who can see him? Yet he is over individual and nation alike,

Job 9:4

His wisdom is profound, his power is vast. Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?

Psalm 127:1

Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.

Psalm 137:7

Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!”

Psalm 33:10

The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the Lord.

Isaiah 10:4

Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

Isaiah 11:14

They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west; together they will plunder the people to the east. They will subdue Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

Isaiah 34:10

It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again.

Isaiah 34:5

My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed.

Jeremiah 31:17

So there is hope for your descendants,” declares the Lord. “Your children will return to their own land.

Jeremiah 49:20

Therefore, hear what the Lord has planned against Edom, what he has purposed against those who live in Teman: The young of the flock will be dragged away; their pasture will be appalled at their fate.

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom: This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

Jeremiah 49:8

Turn and flee, hide in deep caves, you who live in Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time when I punish him.

Jeremiah 5:17

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

Lamentations 3:37

Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?

Ezekiel 11:10

You will fall by the sword, and I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 25:13

therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and kill both man and beast. I will lay it waste, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 25:14

I will take vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will deal with Edom in accordance with my anger and my wrath; they will know my vengeance, declares the Sovereign Lord.’ ”

Ezekiel 26:14

I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 35:4

I will turn your towns into ruins and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 35:9

I will make you desolate forever; your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Amos 1:11

This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Edom, even for four, I will not relent. Because he pursued his brother with a sword and slaughtered the women of the land, because his anger raged continually and his fury flamed unchecked,

Amos 3:15

I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed and the mansions will be demolished,” declares the Lord.

Amos 5:11

You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

Amos 6:11

For the Lord has given the command, and he will smash the great house into pieces and the small house into bits.

Amos 6:2

Go to Kalneh and look at it; go from there to great Hamath, and then go down to Gath in Philistia. Are they better off than your two kingdoms? Is their land larger than yours?

Obadiah 1:1

The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Sovereign Lord says about Edom— We have heard a message from the Lord: An envoy was sent to the nations to say, “Rise, let us go against her for battle”—

Obadiah 1:10

Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever.

Malachi 1:3

but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

Matthew 12:30

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