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

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:21 Lit of the stall

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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but I have hated Esau, and I have (A)made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for 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”; thus says the Lord of hosts, “They may (D)build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the [b]wicked territory, and the people [c]toward 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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