John Trapp on Malachi 1:3

Verſe 3. And I hated Eſau] i. e. I loved him not as I did I[illegible: 2 letters]ob: I paſſed him by, and let him alone to periſh in his corruption, and for his ſin. And for his poſterity; whereas they were carried captives by Nebuchadnez[illegible: 1 letter]zar (as Iſreal alſo was) I have not turned again their captivity, but laid their land deſolate; raſed and haraſed their cities and caſtles made them an habitation of dragons and devil[illegible: 2 letters] and all this as an argument of my deep hatred and utter deteſtation of them. True it is, that Judea lay utterly waſte, during the ſeventy yeers of their captivity; the land kept her ſabbaths reſting from tillage. Upon the ſlaughter of Gedal[illegible: 1 letter]ah all the Jews that were left in the land fled into Egypt: and God kept the room empty, and free from invaſion of forreiners, untill the return of the Natives out of Babylon. Now it was far otherwiſe with Idumea: the deſolation whereof is here deſcribed to be both total and perpetual, (according to that foretold by Ezechiel Chap. 35. O mount Seir, I will make thee to be moſt deſolate, Ezech. 35 3, 7, 15. or (as the Hebrew hath it emphatically and eloquently) waſtneſſe, and waſtneſſe, extreme and and irrecoverable. A [non-Latin text not transcribed], or utter ruine befel that countrey, being part of Arabia Petrea (hence mention of their mountains) and abounding naturally with with ſerpents, or dragons; it being in the wilderneſſe of this country of Edom where the Iſraelites were ſo ſtung with fiery ſerpents:Num. 21.6. hence it became afterwards a very den of dragons lurking there.