Malachi 1:3

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.””

What this verse means

Read Malachi 1:3 in the flow of Malachi1 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Malachi1 to see the surrounding context.

Compare translations
BSBPD

“but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Is not Esau Jacob's brother? --an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
Open the full comparison
Cross references

Other passages that echo Malachi 1:3 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 29:30Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
  2. Deuteronomy 21:15If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
  3. Isaiah 13:21But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
  4. Isaiah 34:9Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
  5. Isaiah 34:13Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
  6. Isaiah 34:14The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.
  7. Isaiah 35:7The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.
  8. Jeremiah 9:11“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
  9. Jeremiah 49:7Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?
  10. Jeremiah 49:10But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.
  11. Jeremiah 49:16The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
  12. Jeremiah 51:37Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
  13. Ezekiel 25:13therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
  14. Ezekiel 35:3and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.
  15. Ezekiel 35:7I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
  16. Ezekiel 36:3therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
  17. Ezekiel 36:7Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I have sworn with an uplifted hand that surely the nations around you will endure reproach of their own.
  18. Ezekiel 36:9For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.
  19. Ezekiel 36:14therefore you will no longer devour men or deprive your nation of its children, declares the Lord GOD.
  20. Joel 3:19Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
  21. Obadiah 1:10Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
  22. Obadiah 1:18Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble— Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.” For the LORD has spoken.
  23. Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Keep exploring