Malachi 1:2-5
New American Standard Bible 1995
2 “I have (A)loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau 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 appointed his inheritance for 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”; thus says the Lord of hosts, “They may (F)build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the [b]wicked territory, and the people [c]toward whom the Lord is indignant (G)forever.” 5 Your eyes will see this and you will say, “(H)The Lord [d]be magnified 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
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