Malachi 1:2-5
World English Bible
2 “I have loved you,” says Yahweh.
Yet you say, “How have you loved us?”
“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob; 3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.” 4 Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”
5 Your eyes will see, and you will say, “Yahweh is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”
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Malachi 1:2-5
American Standard Version
2 I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? [a]Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob; 3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness. 4 [b]Whereas Edom saith, We are [c]beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever. 5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Jehovah [d]be magnified [e]beyond the border of Israel.
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- Malachi 1:2 Or, Is not Esau . . . yet I have loved etc.
- Malachi 1:4 Or, Though Edom say
- Malachi 1:4 Or, as otherwise read, impoverished
- Malachi 1:5 Or, is great
- Malachi 1:5 Or, over
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