Malachi 1:2-5
New American Standard Bible
2 “I have (A)loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was Esau not Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I (B)have loved Jacob; 3 but I have hated Esau, and I have (C)made his mountains a desolation and given his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.” 4 Though Edom says, “We have been (D)beaten down, but we will [a](E)return and build up the ruins”; this is what the Lord of armies says: “They may (F)build, but I will tear down; and people will call them the [b]territory of wickedness, and the people [c]with whom the Lord is indignant (G)forever.” 5 And your eyes will see this, and you will say, “(H)The Lord [d]be exalted beyond the [e]border of Israel!”
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- Malachi 1:4 Or rebuild the ruins
- Malachi 1:4 Lit border of wickedness
- Malachi 1:4 Or whom the Lord has cursed
- Malachi 1:5 Or will be great
- Malachi 1:5 Or territory
Malachi 1:2-5
Holman Christian Standard Bible
2 “I have loved you,”(A) says the Lord.
But you ask: “How have You loved us?”
“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?”(B) This is the Lord’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob, 3 but I hated Esau.(C) I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”(D)
4 Though Edom says: “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild[a] the ruins,” the Lord of Hosts says this: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country(E) and the people the Lord has cursed[b] forever.(F) 5 Your own eyes will see this, and you yourselves will say, ‘The Lord is great, even beyond[c] the borders of Israel.’(G)
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- Malachi 1:4 Or will return and build
- Malachi 1:4 Or Lord is angry with
- Malachi 1:5 Or great over
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