21 Also her (A)mercenaries in her midst
Are like fattened (B)calves,
For they too have turned away and have fled together;
They did not stand their ground.
For the day of their disaster has come upon them,
The time of their (C)punishment.

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21 The mercenaries(A) in her ranks
    are like fattened calves.(B)
They too will turn and flee(C) together,
    they will not stand their ground,
for the day(D) of disaster is coming upon them,
    the time(E) for them to be punished.

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21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.

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but I have hated Esau, and I have (A)made his mountains a desolation and given his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.” Though Edom says, “We have been (B)beaten down, but we will [a](C)return and build up the ruins”; this is what the Lord of armies says: “They may (D)build, but I will tear down; and people will call them the [b]territory of wickedness, and the people [c]with whom the Lord is indignant (E)forever.”

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 1:4 Or rebuild the ruins
  2. Malachi 1:4 Lit border of wickedness
  3. Malachi 1:4 Or whom the Lord has cursed

but Esau I have hated,(A) and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland(B) and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.(C)

Edom(D) may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild(E) the ruins.”

But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish.(F) They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord.(G)

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

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.

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