King James Version (KJV)
Malachi 1:2
“I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,”
Verse in context — Malachi 1
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The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
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I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
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And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
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Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
About Malachi
A call to return to God and a promise of the coming messenger (John the Baptist).
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