Malachi 1:3

And I hated Esau,.... Or, "rejected" him, as the Targum; did not love him as Jacob: this was a negative, not positive hatred; it is true of him, personally considered; not only by taking away the…

And I made his mountains a waste, and his heritage for the jackals of the wilderness - o Malachi attests the first stage of fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy (Joe 3:19, vol. i. pp. 214, 215), “Edom shall…

The prophecy of this book is entitled, The burden of the word of the Lord (Mal 1:1), which intimates, 1. That it was of great weight and importance; what the false prophets said was light as the…

for the dragons Rather, jackals. The unusual form of the word here (fem. instead of masc. as elsewhere) has led many to render, dwellings(LXX. δώματα ἐρήμου; and Syr.). But the derivation and meaning…