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Malachi 1:2

American Standard Version

I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob;

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Malachi 1:2 in other translations

“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;

Malachi 1:2 · World English Bible

Malachi 1:2 in context

  1. 1The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi.
  2. 2I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob;
  3. 3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
  4. 4Whereas Edom saith, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.