10 But I have (A)stripped Esau bare,
I have uncovered his hiding places
So that he will not be able to conceal himself;
His [a]offspring have been destroyed along with his [b]brothers
And his neighbors, and (B)he no longer exists.

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  1. Jeremiah 49:10 Lit seed
  2. Jeremiah 49:10 Or relatives

10 But I will strip Esau bare;
    I will uncover his hiding places,(A)
    so that he cannot conceal himself.
His armed men are destroyed,
    also his allies and neighbors,
    so there is no one(B) to say,

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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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  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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