World English Bible
Malachi 1:2
“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;”
Verse in context — Malachi 1
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An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.
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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;
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but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
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Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;" thus says Yahweh of Armies, "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.
About Malachi
A call to return to God and a promise of the coming messenger (John the Baptist).
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