Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

And I hated Esau, and I will set his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance for the jackals of the desert

New American Standard Bible

but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.”

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. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

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.

A Conservative Version

but Esau I regarded inferior, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And I hated
שׂנא 
Sane' 
Usage: 145

עשׂו 
`Esav 
Usage: 97

and laid
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

הר 
Har 
Usage: 544

נחלה 
Nachalah 
Usage: 222

שׁממה שׁממה 
Sh@mamah 
Usage: 57

for the dragons
תּנּה 
Tannah 
Usage: 2

References

Context Readings

An Oracle Against Edom

2 I loved you, said Jehovah. And ye said, In what didst thou love us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob? says Jehovah: and loving Jacob. 3 And I hated Esau, and I will set his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance for the jackals of the desert 4 For Edom will say, We were broken down, and we will turn back and build the wastes; thus said Jehovah of armies: They shall build and I will pull down; and calling to them, The bound of injustice, and, The people with whom Jehovah was very angry, even to forever.



Cross References

Jeremiah 49:16-18

Thy terror deceived thee, the pride of thy heart, thou dwelling in the asylums of the rock, holding the height of the hill: if thou shalt make thy nest high as the eagle, from thence will I bring thee down, says Jehovah.

Ezekiel 35:3-4

And say to it, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me against thee, O mount Seir; and I stretched out my hand upon thee a desolation and an amazement

Joel 3:19

Egypt shall be for a desolation, and Edom shall be for a desert of desolation from violence to the sons of Judah, because they poured out innocent blood in their land.

Genesis 29:30-31

And he will go in also to Rachel, and he will also love Rachel more than Leah, and he will serve with him yet other seven years.

Deuteronomy 21:15-16

When there shall be to a man two wives, the one loved and the one hated, and they bare sons to him, the loved and the hated, and the first-born son was to her being hated:

Isaiah 13:21-22

And inhabitants of the desert reclined there, and their houses were filled with howlings, and the daughters of the ostrich dwelt there, and he goats shall leap there.

Isaiah 34:9-14

And its torrents turned to pitch, and its dust to sulphur, and its land to burning pitch.

Isaiah 35:7

And the dry was for a pool, and the thirsty land for fountains of water: in the dwelling of jackals its lying down, an enclosure for the reed and the bulrush

Jeremiah 9:11

And I gave Jerusalem for heaps and a dwelling of jackals; and the cities of Judah I will give a desolation from none inhabiting.

Jeremiah 49:10

For I made Esau naked, I uncovered his secret places, he shall not be able to hide: his seed was laid waste, and his brethren and his neighbors, and he is not

Jeremiah 51:37

And Babel was for heaps, a habitation of jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, from none inhabiting.

Ezekiel 25:13-14

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: and I stretched out my hand upon Edom, and I cut of from her man and cattle; and I gave her a waste from the south; and Dedan shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 35:7-8

And I gave mount Seir for a desolation, and desolation, and I cut off from it him passing through and him turning back.

Ezekiel 36:3-4

For this, prophesy and say, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because for, because of making desolate, and panting after you from round about, for you to be a possession for the remainder of the nations, and ye will come up upon the lips of the tongue and a slander of the people:

Ezekiel 36:7

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I lifted up my hand; if not the nations who are from round about to you, they shall bear their shame.

Ezekiel 36:9

For behold me for you, and I turned to you and ye were tilled and sown.

Ezekiel 36:14-15

For this, thou shalt no more consume man, and thou shalt no more bereave thy nation; says the Lord Jehovah.

Obadiah 1:10

From this violence of thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou wert cut off forever.

Obadiah 1:18-21

And the house of Jacob was a fire, and the house of Joseph for a flame, and the house of Esau for straw; and they burned in them, and they devoured them; and a survivor shall not be to the house of Esau, for Jehovah spake.

Luke 14:26

If any come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, and yet also his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

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