Malachi 1:1-4
God’s Love for Jacob
1 The apronouncement of the word of the Lord to bIsrael through ▼▼Or My messenger
Malachi: 2 “I have dloved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was Esau not Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I ehave loved Jacob; 3but I have hated Esau, and I have fmade his mountains a desolation and given his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.” 4Though Edom says, “We have been gbeaten down, but we will ▼▼Or rebuild the ruins
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ireturn and build up the ruins”; this is what the Lord of armies says: “They may jbuild, but I will tear down; and people will call them the ▼▼Lit border of wickedness
territory of wickedness, and the people ▼▼Or whom the Lord has cursed
with whom the Lord is indignant mforever.”
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