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Malachi 1:1-3
Christian Standard Bible
Malachi 1:1-3
Christian Standard Bible
The Lord’s Love for Israel
1 A pronouncement:(A)
The word of the Lord(B) to Israel through(C) Malachi.[a]
2 “I have loved you,”(D) says the Lord.
Yet you ask, “How have you loved us?”
“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” (E) This is the Lord’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob, 3 but I hated Esau.(F) I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”(G)
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