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
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Israel Preferred to Edom
2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob,(A) 3 but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.(B) 4 If Edom says, ‘We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,’ the Lord of hosts says: They may build, but I will tear down, until they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry forever. 5 Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, ‘Great is the Lord beyond the borders of Israel!’ ”(C)
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