Isaiah 34:10-12

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¹⁰It will not be quenched^(A) night or day;
    its smoke will rise forever.^(B)
From generation to generation^(C) it will lie desolate;^(D)
    no one will ever pass through it again.
¹¹The desert owl^[a]^(E) and screech owl^[b] will possess it;
    the great owl^[c] and the raven^(F) will nest there.
God will stretch out over Edom^(G)
    the measuring line of chaos^(H)
    and the plumb line^(I) of desolation.
¹²Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom,
    all her princes^(J) will vanish^(K) away.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.

Jeremiah 11:23

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²³Not even a remnant^(A) will be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.^(B)”

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Ezekiel 35:4

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⁴I will turn your towns into ruins^(A) and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord.^(B)

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Obadiah 18

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¹⁸Jacob will be a fire
    and Joseph a flame;
Esau will be stubble,
    and they will set him on fire^(A) and destroy^(B) him.
There will be no survivors^(C)
    from Esau.”
The Lord has spoken.

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Malachi 1:2-5

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Israel Doubts God’s Love

²“I have loved^(A) you,” says the Lord.

“But you ask,^(B) ‘How have you loved us?’

“Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob,^(C) ³but Esau I have hated,^(D) and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland^(E) and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.^(F)”

⁴Edom^(G) may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild^(H) the ruins.”

But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish.^(I) They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord.^(J) ⁵You will see it with your own eyes and say, ‘Great^(K) is the Lord—even beyond the borders of Israel!’^(L)