3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.|


In Context

1 An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.

2 |I have loved you,| says Yahweh. Yet you say, |How have you loved us?| |Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?| says Yahweh, |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;| thus says Yahweh of Armies, |They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.|

5 Your eyes will see, and you will say, |Yahweh is great—even beyond the border of Israel!|

Malachi 1:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals."

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:3and I hated Esau; and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:3But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:3Is 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.