Malachi 1:4

New King James Version

Even though Edom has said, “We have been impoverished, But we will return and build the desolate places,” Thus says the Lord of hosts: “They may build, but I will throw down; They shall be called the Territory of Wickedness, And the people against whom the Lord will have indignation forever.

Cross References

Job 12:14

If He breaks a thing down, it cannot be rebuilt; If He imprisons a man, there can be no release.

Job 34:29

When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? And when He hides His face, who then can see Him, Whether it is against a nation or a man alone?—

Job 9:4

God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and prospered?

Psalm 127:1

Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.

Psalm 137:7

Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, “Raze it, raze it, To its very foundation!”

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom or understanding Or counsel against the Lord.

Isaiah 10:4

Without Me they shall bow down among the prisoners, And they shall fall among the slain.” For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 11:14

But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; Together they shall plunder the people of the East; They shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab; And the people of Ammon shall obey them.

Isaiah 34:10

It shall not be quenched night or day; Its smoke shall ascend forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; No one shall pass through it forever and ever.

Isaiah 34:5

“For My sword shall be bathed in heaven; Indeed it shall come down on Edom, And on the people of My curse, for judgment.

Jeremiah 31:17

There is hope in your future, says the Lord, That your children shall come back to their own border.

Jeremiah 49:20

Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord that He has taken against Edom, And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.

Jeremiah 49:7

Against Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Is wisdom no more 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 will punish him.

Jeremiah 5:17

And they shall eat up your harvest and your bread, Which your sons and daughters should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds; They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; They shall destroy your fortified cities, In which you trust, with the sword.

Lamentations 3:37

Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass, When the Lord has not commanded it?

Ezekiel 11:10

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

Ezekiel 25:13

therefore thus says the Lord God: “I will also stretch out My hand against Edom, cut off man and beast from it, and make it desolate from Teman; Dedan shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 25:14

I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, that they may do in Edom according to My anger and according to My fury; and they shall know My vengeance,” says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 26:14

I will make you like the top of a rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets, and you shall never be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken,’ says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 35:4

I shall lay your cities waste, And you shall be desolate. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 35:9

I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the Lord.

Amos 1:11

Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because he pursued his brother with the sword, And cast off all pity; His anger tore perpetually, And he kept his wrath forever.

Amos 3:15

I will destroy the winter house along with the summer house; The houses of ivory shall perish, And the great houses shall have an end,” Says the Lord.

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you tread down the poor And take grain taxes from him, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, Yet you shall not dwell in them; You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink wine from them.

Amos 6:11

For behold, the Lord gives a command: He will break the great house into bits, And the little house into pieces.

Amos 6:2

Go over to Calneh and see; And from there go to Hamath the great; Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory?

Obadiah 1:1

The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom (We have heard a report from the Lord, And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle”):

Obadiah 1:10

“For violence against your brother Jacob, Shame shall cover you, And you shall be cut off forever.

Malachi 1:3

But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness.”

Matthew 12:30

He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.