Malachi

A complaint against Israel, and chiefly the Priests.

The [a]burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the ministry of Malachi.

I have loved you, saith the Lord: yet ye say, [b]Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother, saith the Lord? Yet I loved Jacob,

And I [c][d]hated Esau, and made his mountains waste, and his heritage a wilderness for dragons.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 1:1 Read Isa. 13:1.
  2. Malachi 1:2 Which declareth their great ingratitude that did not acknowledge this love, which was so evident, in that he chose Abraham from out of all the world, and next chose Jacob the younger brother of whom they came, and left Esau the elder.
  3. Malachi 1:3 For beside here the signs of mine hatred appeared even when he was made servant unto his younger brother, being yet in his mother’s belly, and also afterward in that he was put from his birthright, yet even now before your eyes the signs hereof are evident, in that that his country lieth waste and he shall never return to inhabit.
  4. Malachi 1:3 Whereas ye my people, whom the enemy hated more than them, are by my grace and love toward you delivered, read Rom. 9:13.

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