Whereas Edom said, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus said 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 for ever. Treasury of Scripture but. Isaiah 9:9,10 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart... James 4:13-16 Go to now, you that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain... They shall build. Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered? 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?... Psalm 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain. Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD. Isaiah 10:4,15,16 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away... Lamentations 3:37 Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not? Matthew 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with me scatters abroad. The border. Jeremiah 31:17 And there is hope in your end, said the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border. Ezekiel 11:10 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am the LORD. Amos 6:2 Pass you to Calneh, and see; and from there go you to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines... The people. Malachi 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. 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. Isaiah 11:14 But they shall fly on the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together... Isaiah 34:5,10 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down on Idumea, and on the people of my curse, to judgment... Isaiah 63:1-6 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel... Lamentations 4:21,22 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through to you: you shall be drunken... Ezekiel 25:14 And I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel... Ezekiel 35:9 I will make you perpetual desolations, and your cities shall not return: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Context The Lord's Love for Israel
1The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. 2I have loved you, said the LORD. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? said the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, 3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. 4Whereas Edom said, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus said 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 for ever. 5And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
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.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed, but we will return and build up what hath been destroyed: thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall build up, and I will throw down: and they shall be called the borders of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.
Darby Bible Translation
If Edom say, We are broken down, but we will build again the ruined places, thus saith Jehovah of hosts: They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them the territory of wickedness, and the people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.
King James Bible
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.
Young's Literal Translation
Because Edom saith, 'We have been made poor, And we turn back and we build the wastes,' Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They do build, and I do destroy, And men have called to them, 'O region of wickedness,' 'O people whom Jehovah defied to the age.'
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