Malachi 1:4 - King James 2000

⁴ If Edom says, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD has indignation forever.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Though [impoverished] Edom should say, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places–thus says the Lord of hosts: They may build, but I will tear and throw down; and men will call them the Wicked Country, the people against whom the Lord has indignation forever.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Whereas Edom saith, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.

Common English Bible

⁴ Edom may say, “We are beaten down, but we will rebuild the ruins”; but the LORD of heavenly forces proclaims: They may build, but I will tear them down. They will call themselves a wicked territory, the people against whom the LORD rages forever.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ But if Idumea will say, "We have been destroyed, but when we return, we will build up what has been destroyed," thus says the Lord of hosts: They will build up, and I will destroy. And they will be called "The limits of impiety," and, "The people with whom the Lord has been angry, even to eternity."

Malachi 1:4 Tagairtí Cros

Job 12:14

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

Job 34:29

When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

Job 9:4

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered?

Psalm 127:1

[A song of ascents. Of Solomon.] Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain that build it: unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchman wakes, but in vain.

Psalm 137:7

Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.

Psalm 33:10

The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing: he makes the devices of the people of none effect.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor 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 swoop down upon the shoulders of the Philistines in the west; they shall plunder together them of the east: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

Isaiah 34:10

It shall not be quenched night nor day; its smoke shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.

Isaiah 34:5

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

Jeremiah 31:17

And there is hope in your end, says the LORD, that your children shall come again 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 purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning 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 you, 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 your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fortified cities, in which you trusted, with the sword.

Lamentations 3:37

Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?

Ezekiel 11:10

You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel; and 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, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 25:14

And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall 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

And I will make you like the top of a rock: you shall be a place to spread nets upon; you shall be rebuilt no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, says the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 35:4

I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 35:9

I will make you perpetual desolations, and your cities shall not return: and 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 did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever:

Amos 3:15

And I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, says the LORD.

Amos 5:11

Since therefore you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

Amos 6:11

For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house into bits.

Amos 6:2

Pass you unto Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms? or their borders greater than your borders?

Obadiah 1:1

The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a message from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, Arise you, and let us rise up against her in battle.

Obadiah 1:10

For your violence against your brother Jacob shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.

Malachi 1:3

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the jackals of the wilderness.

Matthew 12:30

He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with me scatters abroad.