Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
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 (Joel 3:19, vol. i. pp. 214, 215), "Edom shall be a desolate wilderness." In temporal things, Esau' s blessing was identical with Jacob' s; "the fatness of the earth and of the dew of heaven from above;" and the rich soil on the terraces of its mountain-sides, though yielding nothing now except a wild beautiful vegetation, and its deep glens, attest what they once must have been, when artificially watered and cultivated. The first desolation must have been through Nebuchadnezzar , in his expedition against Egypt, when he subdued Moab and Ammon; and Edom lay in his way, as Jeremiah had foretold Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:21.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Malachi 1:3:
Genesis 27:1-46
Job 30:29
Isaiah 13:22
Isaiah 13:22
Isaiah 21:11
Joel 3:19
Obadiah 1:16
Romans 9:13
Romans 9:13
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