SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:4
Cuando Edom dijere: Nos hemos empobrecido, mas tornemos a edificar lo arruinado; así dijo el SEÑOR de los ejércitos: Ellos edificarán, y yo destruiré; y les llamarán Provincia de impiedad, y, pueblo contra quien el SEÑOR se airó para siempre.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Malachi 1:4
Verse 4. They shall build, but I will throw down] We have already seen enough of the wickedness of the Edomites to justify the utmost severity of Divine justice against them. The pulling down predicted here was by Judas Maccabeus; see 1 Mac. v. 65; and by John Hyrcanus; see JosEphesians Antiq., lib. xiii. c. 9. s. 1. They shall call them, The border of wickedness] A wicked land. Among this people scarcely any trace of good could ever be noted.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 4. Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished , etc.] Or the Idumeans, as the Targum; the posterity of Esau, who acknowledge themselves greatly reduced by the desolations made in their country, cities, towns, and houses, being plundered of all their valuable things. Kimchi interprets it, if the congregation of Edom should say, though we are become poor and low, and our land is laid waste: but we will return ; being now become rich, as the Targum adds; that is, as Jarchi explains it, with the spoils of Jerusalem: and build the desolate places : as Israel did, as Kimchi observes, when they returned from their captivity; and so the Edomites hoped to do the same: thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down ; they attempted to build again their cities and towns, but could not succeed, God was against them: and they shall call them ; or, “they shall be called” f20 ; this shall be the name they, shall go by among men, by way of proverb and reproach: The border of wickedness ; a wicked kingdom and nation, from one end to the other; this shall be said of them, as the reason of their utter and perpetual desolation: and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever ; not for seventy years only, as against the Jews, ( Zechariah 1:12), but forever; and these are now no more a people; they are utterly extinct; their name and nation are lost; there is not the least appearance of them; when the Jews, though they are scattered about in the world, yet they are still a people, and distinct from all others.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - All advantages, either as to outward circumstances, or spiritual privileges, come from the free love of God, who makes one to diffe from another. All the evils sinners feel and fear, are the jus recompence of their crimes, while all their hopes and comforts are from the unmerited mercy of the Lord. He chose his people that they might be holy. If we love him, it is because he has first loved us; yet we all are prone to undervalue the mercies of God, and to excuse our ow offences.
Original Hebrew
כי 3588 תאמר 559 אדום 123 רשׁשׁנו 7567 ונשׁוב 7725 ונבנה 1129 חרבות 2723 כה 3541 אמר 559 יהוה 3068 צבאות 6635 המה 1992 יבנו 1129 ואני 589 אהרוס 2040 וקראו 7121 להם גבול 1366 רשׁעה 7564 והעם 5971 אשׁר 834 זעם 2194 יהוה 3068 עד 5704 עולם׃ 5769
