Malachi 1:1-5
The LORD’s Love for Israel

1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.

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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,

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3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

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4 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.

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5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.

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