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Malachi 1:3
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
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Malachi 1:3 in other translations
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
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In context
1 A revelation, the LORD’s word to Israel by Malachi.
2 “I have loved you,” says the LORD. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the LORD, “Yet I loved Jacob;
3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
4 Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places,” the LORD of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom the LORD shows wrath forever.”
5 Your eyes will see, and you will say, “The LORD is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”
6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
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