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“I’ve loved you,” says the Lord. “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’

“Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord, “yet I loved Jacob, hated Esau, turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave[a] his inheritance to desert jackals. Even though Edom may claim, ‘We were crushed, but we will return and rebuild the ruins,’ this is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says: “They may rebuild, but I’ll demolish. People[b] will call them, ‘The Wicked Land,’ and, ‘The People With Whom the Lord is Forever Angry.’ Your own eyes will see this, and you will say, ‘Great is the Lord even beyond the borders of Israel!’”

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 1:3 The Heb. lacks gave
  2. Malachi 1:4 Lit. they