Malachi 1:3
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3 but Esau I have hated. (A)I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”
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Obadiah 10
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Edom's Violence Against Jacob
10 (A)Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
shame shall cover you,
(B)and you shall be cut off forever.
Joel 3:19
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19 (A)“Egypt shall become a desolation
and (B)Edom a desolate wilderness,
(C)for the violence done to the people of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Ezekiel 35:3-4
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3 and say to it, Thus says the Lord God: (A)Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and (B)I will stretch out my hand against you, (C)and I will make you a desolation and a waste. 4 (D)I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
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Jeremiah 49:16-18
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16 The horror you inspire has deceived you,
and the pride of your heart,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,[a]
who hold the height of the hill.
Though you (A)make your nest as high as the eagle's,
I will bring you down from there,
declares the Lord.
17 (B)“Edom shall become a horror. (C)Everyone who passes by it will be horrified (D)and will hiss because of all its disasters. 18 (E)As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their (F)neighboring cities were overthrown, says the Lord, (G)no man shall dwell there, (H)no man shall sojourn in her.
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- Jeremiah 49:16 Or of Sela
Obadiah 18-21
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18 (A)The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
and the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau (B)stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
(C)and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.
The Kingdom of the Lord
19 Those of (D)the Negeb (E)shall possess (F)Mount Esau,
and those of the Shephelah shall possess (G)the land of the Philistines;
they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of (H)Samaria,
and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 The exiles of this host of the people of Israel
shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as (I)Zarephath,
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
21 (J)Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion
to rule (K)Mount Esau,
and (L)the kingdom shall be the Lord's.
Ezekiel 36:14-15
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14 therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord God. 15 And I will not let you hear anymore (A)the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord God.”
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Ezekiel 36:9
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9 For (A)behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and (B)you shall be tilled and sown.
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Ezekiel 36:7
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7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: (A)I swear that the nations that are all around you (B)shall themselves suffer reproach.
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Ezekiel 36:3-4
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3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Precisely because (A)they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and (B)you became the talk and evil gossip of the people, 4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to (C)the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, (D)the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become (E)a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,
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Ezekiel 25:13-14
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13 therefore thus says the Lord God, (A)I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it man and beast. And I will make it desolate; from (B)Teman even to (C)Dedan they shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom (D)by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and (E)they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord God.
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Jeremiah 51:37
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37 and Babylon shall become (A)a heap of ruins,
(B)the haunt of jackals,
(C)a horror (D)and a hissing,
without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 49:10
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10 (A)But I have stripped Esau bare;
(B)I have uncovered his hiding places,
and he is not able to conceal himself.
His children are destroyed, and his brothers,
and his neighbors; and (C)he is no more.
Jeremiah 9:11
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11 (A)I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
(B)a lair of jackals,
(C)and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.”
Isaiah 35:7
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7 (A)the burning sand shall become a pool,
and the thirsty ground springs of water;
in the haunt of (B)jackals, where they lie down,
the grass shall become reeds and rushes.
Isaiah 34:9-14
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9 (A)And the streams of Edom[a] shall be turned into pitch,
and her soil into sulfur;
her land shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day (B)it shall not be quenched;
(C)its smoke shall go up forever.
(D)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 (E)But the hawk and the porcupine[b] shall possess it,
the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
(F)He shall stretch the line of (G)confusion[c] over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom,
and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 (H)Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of (I)jackals,
an abode for ostriches.[d]
14 (J)And wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird[e] settles
and finds for herself a resting place.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:9 Hebrew her streams
- Isaiah 34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain
- Isaiah 34:11 Hebrew formlessness
- Isaiah 34:13 Or owls
- Isaiah 34:14 Identity uncertain
Isaiah 13:21-22
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21 But (A)wild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there (B)ostriches[a] will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas[b] will cry in its towers,
and (C)jackals in (D)the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:21 Or owls
- Isaiah 13:22 Or foxes
Deuteronomy 21:15-16
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Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn
15 “If a man has two wives, (A)the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,[a] 16 then on the day when (B)he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn,
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- Deuteronomy 21:15 Or hated; also verses 16, 17
Luke 14:26
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26 (A)“If anyone comes to me and (B)does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, (C)yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
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Ezekiel 35:7-8
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Genesis 29:30-31
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30 So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban (A)for another seven years.
Jacob's Children
31 When the Lord saw that Leah was (B)hated, (C)he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
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