Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
but Esau I regarded inferior, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
New American Standard Bible
but I have hated Esau, and I have
King James Version
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Holman Bible
but I hated Esau.
International Standard Version
"Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the LORD, "yet I loved Jacob, hated Esau, turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to desert jackals.
American Standard Version
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
Amplified
but [in comparison with My love for Jacob] I have hated Esau (Edom), and I have made his mountains a wasteland, and have given his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.”
Bible in Basic English
And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.
Darby Translation
and I hated Esau; and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.
Julia Smith Translation
And I hated Esau, and I will set his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance for the jackals of the desert
King James 2000
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the jackals of the wilderness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
but Esau I have hated. I have made his mountain ranges a desolation, and [given] his inheritance to the jackals of [the] desert."
Modern King James verseion
and I hated Esau and made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance to be for the jackals of the wilderness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and hated Esau: Yea I have made his hills waste, and his heritage a wilderness for dragons."
NET Bible
and rejected Esau. I turned Esau's mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals."
New Heart English Bible
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
The Emphasized Bible
And, Esau, have I hated, - and made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance a dwelling for the jackals of the wilderness.
Webster
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
World English Bible
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Themes
Dragon » A serpent or the desert
the Dragon » Found in » The wilderness
Edomites, the » Country of » Mountainous and rocky
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Malachi 1:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Oracle Against Edom
2 I have loved you, says LORD. Yet ye say, How have thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, says LORD. Yet I loved Jacob, 3 but Esau I regarded inferior, 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 LORD of hosts: They shall build, but I will throw down, and men shall call them the border of wickedness, and the people against whom L
Cross References
Jeremiah 49:16-18
As for thy formidableness, the pride of thy heart has deceived thee, O thou who dwells in the clefts of the rock, who holds the height of the hill. Though thou should make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from
Ezekiel 35:3-4
And say to it, Thus says lord LORD: Behold, I am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a desolation and an astonishment.
Joel 3:19
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the sons of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Genesis 29:30-31
And he also went in to Rachel, and also he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Deuteronomy 21:15-16
If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other regarded inferior, and they have borne him sons, both the beloved and the one regarded inferior, and if the first-born son be hers who was regarded inferior,
Isaiah 13:21-22
But wild beasts of the desert shall lay there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures. And ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.
Isaiah 34:9-14
And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust of it into brimstone. And the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Isaiah 35:7
And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. In the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 49:10
But I have made Esau bare. I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself. His seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors, and he is not.
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Ezekiel 25:13-14
therefore thus says lord LORD: I will stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it, and I will make it desolate. From Teman, even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.
Ezekiel 35:7-8
Thus I will make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation, and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.
Ezekiel 36:3-4
therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says lord LORD: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips o
Ezekiel 36:7
Therefore thus says lord LORD: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
Ezekiel 36:9
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and ye shall be tilled and sown.
Ezekiel 36:14-15
therefore thou shall no more devour men, nor bereave thy nation any more, says lord LORD.
Obadiah 1:10
Shame shall cover thee for the violence done to thy brother Jacob, and thou shall be cut off forever.
Obadiah 1:18-21
And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. And they shall burn among them, and devour them, and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau, for LORD has sp
Luke 14:26
If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.