Matthew Poole and continuators on Malachi 1:4

4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished , but we will return and build the desolate places : thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build but I will throw down , and they shall call them, The border of wickedness , and The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever .

Here the Prophet introduceth Edom reflecting on it's present low condition, and taking up resolutions of bettering their condition, we are now, as the Iewes were five years before, exceedingly spoiled by Neb[illegible: 1 letter]chadnezzar ▪ who hath rifled our houses, burnt our Cities, and captivated our Citizens.

This speaks their Insolence, or shall, this speaks their hopes of such a return as Iacob's Posterity had after 70 years.

Repair their Cities as Ierusalem was repaired by the returned Captivity.

They may do so for a while, but saith God, I will throw it down, as he did in the times of the Maccabees.

They will be by their flagitious lives, after they a little recover themselves, a most wicked people and so notorious that all their neighbours shall brand them for it, and presage a Curse will follow them.

They will so highly provoke God, that his Indignation will be kindled against them, and will burn for ever.