Mal.1.4

Malachi 1:4

KJV GOD

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.

The LORD’s Love for Israel

Cross References

Isaiah 9:9

KJV

And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

Judgment against Israel’s Pride

Isaiah 9:10

KJV

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

Judgment against Israel’s Pride

Isaiah 34:5

KJV GOD

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

Judgment on Edom

Isaiah 34:10

KJV

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

Judgment on Edom

Jeremiah 5:17

KJV GOD

And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

Judgment Proclaimed

Jeremiah 49:8

KJV GOD

Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.

Judgment on Edom

Jeremiah 49:20

KJV GOD

Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath 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.

Judgment on Edom

Lamentations 4:22

KJV

¶ The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

The Distress of Zion

Ezekiel 25:13

KJV GOD

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will also stretch out mine hand upon 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.

A Prophecy against Edom

Ezekiel 26:14

KJV GOD

And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

A Prophecy against Tyre

Ezekiel 35:4

KJV GOD

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

A Prophecy against Mount Seir

Ezekiel 35:9

KJV GOD

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

A Prophecy against Mount Seir

Amos 3:15

KJV GOD

And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord.

Witnesses against Israel

Amos 5:11

KJV GOD

Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

A Call to Repentance

Amos 6:11

KJV GOD

For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

The Pride of Israel

Obadiah 1:1

KJV

The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

The Destruction of Edom

Obadiah 1:10

KJV GOD

¶ For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.