Malachi 1:3
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3 But Esau I have hated,
And (A)laid waste his mountains and his heritage
For the jackals of the wilderness.”
Obadiah 10
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Edom Mistreated His Brother
10 “For (A)violence against your brother Jacob,
Shame shall cover you,
And (B)you shall be cut off forever.
Joel 3:19
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19 “Egypt shall be a desolation,
And Edom a desolate wilderness,
Because of violence against the people of Judah,
For 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:
“Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you;
(A)I will stretch out My hand against you,
And make you [a]most desolate;
4 I shall lay your cities waste,
And you shall be desolate.
Then you shall know that I am the Lord.
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- Ezekiel 35:3 Lit. a desolation and a waste
Jeremiah 49:16-18
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16 Your fierceness has deceived you,
The (A)pride of your heart,
O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
Who hold the height of the hill!
(B)Though you make your (C)nest as high as the eagle,
(D)I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.
17 “Edom also shall be an astonishment;
(E)Everyone who goes by it will be astonished
And will hiss at all its plagues.
18 (F)As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah
And their neighbors,” says the Lord,
“No one shall remain there,
Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.
Obadiah 18-21
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18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
And the house of Joseph (A)a flame;
But the house of Esau shall be stubble;
They shall kindle them and devour them,
And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,”
For the Lord has spoken.
19 The [a]South (B)shall possess the mountains of Esau,
(C)And the Lowland shall possess Philistia.
They shall possess the fields of Ephraim
And the fields of Samaria.
Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel
Shall possess the land of the Canaanites
As (D)far as Zarephath.
The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
(E)Shall possess the cities of the [b]South.
21 Then (F)saviors[c] shall come to Mount Zion
To judge the mountains of Esau,
And the (G)kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
Footnotes
- Obadiah 1:19 Heb. Negev
- Obadiah 1:20 Heb. Negev
- Obadiah 1:21 deliverers
Ezekiel 36:14-15
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14 therefore you shall devour men no more, nor bereave your nation anymore,” says the Lord God. 15 (A)“Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the nations anymore, nor bear the reproach of the peoples anymore, nor shall you cause your nation to stumble anymore,” says the Lord God.’ ”
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Ezekiel 36:9
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9 For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.
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Ezekiel 36:7
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7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “I have (A)raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations that are around you shall (B)bear their own shame.
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Ezekiel 36:3-4
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3 therefore prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, (A)and you are taken up by the lips of (B)talkers and slandered by the people”— 4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, the hills, the [a]rivers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which (C)became plunder and (D)mockery to the rest of the nations all around—
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- Ezekiel 36:4 Or ravines
Ezekiel 25:13-14
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13 therefore thus says the Lord God: “I will also stretch out My hand against Edom, cut off man and beast from it, and make it desolate from Teman; [a]Dedan shall fall by the sword. 14 (A)I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, that they may do in Edom according to My anger and according to My fury; and they shall know My vengeance,” says the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 25:13 Or even to Dedan they shall fall
Jeremiah 51:37
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37 (A)Babylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
(B)An astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 49:10
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10 (A)But I have made Esau bare;
I have uncovered his secret places,
And he shall not be able to hide himself.
His descendants are plundered,
His brethren and his neighbors,
And (B)he is no more.
Jeremiah 9:11
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11 “I will make Jerusalem (A)a heap of ruins, (B)a den of jackals.
I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.”
Isaiah 35:7
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7 The parched ground shall become a pool,
And the thirsty land springs of water;
In (A)the habitation of jackals, where each lay,
There shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Isaiah 34:9-14
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9 (A)Its streams shall be turned into pitch,
And its dust into brimstone;
Its land shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not be quenched night or day;
(B)Its smoke shall ascend forever.
(C)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
No one shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 (D)But the [a]pelican and the [b]porcupine shall possess it,
Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
And (E)He shall stretch out over it
The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom,
But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 And (F)thorns shall come up in its palaces,
Nettles and brambles in its fortresses;
(G)It shall be a habitation of jackals,
A courtyard for ostriches.
14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the [c]jackals,
And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion;
Also [d]the night creature shall rest there,
And find for herself a place of rest.
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- Isaiah 34:11 Or owl
- Isaiah 34:11 Or hedgehog
- Isaiah 34:14 Lit. howling creatures
- Isaiah 34:14 Heb. lilith
Isaiah 13:21-22
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21 (A)But wild beasts of the desert will lie there,
And their houses will be full of [a]owls;
Ostriches will dwell there,
And wild goats will caper there.
22 The hyenas will howl in their citadels,
And jackals in their pleasant palaces.
(B)Her time is near to come,
And her days will not be prolonged.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:21 Or howling creatures
Deuteronomy 21:15-16
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Firstborn Inheritance Rights
15 “If a man has two wives, one loved (A)and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved, and if the firstborn son is of her who is unloved, 16 then it shall be, (B)on the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, that he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in preference to the son of the unloved, the true firstborn.
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Luke 14:26
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26 (A)“If anyone comes to Me (B)and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, (C)yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
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Ezekiel 35:7-8
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7 Thus I will make Mount Seir [a]most desolate, and cut off from it the (A)one who leaves and the one who returns. 8 And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall.
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- Ezekiel 35:7 Lit. a waste and a desolation
Genesis 29:30-31
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30 Then Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also (A)loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with Laban (B)still another seven years.
The Children of Jacob
31 When the Lord (C)saw that Leah was [a]unloved, He (D)opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
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- Genesis 29:31 Lit. hated
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