Malachi 1:3 · KJV

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

King James Version

Passage Context

¹The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.

²I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith 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 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.

⁵And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.

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