Malachi 1:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.

Cross References

Genesis 25:23

And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples born of you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other; the elder shall serve the younger.”

Isaiah 35:7

the burning sand shall become a pool and the thirsty ground springs of water; the haunt of jackals shall become a swamp; the grass shall become reeds and rushes.

Jeremiah 49:10

But as for me, I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His offspring are destroyed, his kinsfolk and his neighbors, and he is no more.

Jeremiah 49:20

Therefore hear the plan that the Lord has made against Edom and the purposes that he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.

Jeremiah 49:33

Hazor shall become a lair of jackals, an everlasting waste; no one shall live there, nor shall anyone settle in it.

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

Jeremiah 49:8

Flee; turn back; get down low, inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time when I punish him.

Jeremiah 51:37

and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, a den of jackals, an object of horror and of hissing, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

Lamentations 4:22

The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter Zion, is accomplished; he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter Edom, he will punish; he will uncover your sins.

Ezekiel 36:7

therefore thus says the Lord God: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer insults.

Ezekiel 36:9

See now, I am for you; I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown,

Joel 3:19

Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood.

Obadiah 1:10

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

Luke 14:26

“Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.