Malachi 1:1-5 (New International Version)

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1 An oracle:¹ The word² of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.^a

Jacob Loved, Esau Hated

2 "I have loved³ you," says the LORD. "But you ask,⁴ 'How have you loved us?' "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" the LORD says. "Yet I have loved Jacob,⁵ 3 but Esau I have hated,⁶ and I have turned his mountains into a wasteland⁷ and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.⁸" 4 Edom⁹ may say, "Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild¹⁰ the ruins." But this is what the LORD Almighty says: "They may build, but I will demolish.¹¹ They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the LORD.¹² 5 You will see it with your own eyes and say, 'Great¹³ is the LORD--even beyond the borders of Israel!'¹⁴

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