Malachi 1:2-5

Israel Doubts God’s Love

2 “I have loved you,” says the LORD. “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’ “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob,
3 but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
4 Edom may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins.” But this is what the LORD Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the LORD.
5 You will see it with your own eyes and say, ‘Great is the LORD—even beyond the borders of Israel!’

Cross References 12

  • 1. S Deuteronomy 4:37
  • 2. ver 6,7; Malachi 2:14,17; Malachi 3:7,13
  • 3. S Jeremiah 46:27; Romans 9:13*
  • 4. Luke 14:26
  • 5. S Isaiah 34:10
  • 6. S Isaiah 13:22; Ezekiel 35:3-9
  • 7. S Isaiah 11:14; S Isaiah 34:11
  • 8. Isaiah 9:10
  • 9. S Isaiah 34:5
  • 10. S Lamentations 4:22; S Ezekiel 25:12-14; S Ezekiel 26:14
  • 11. Psalms 35:27; Psalms 48:1; Micah 5:4
  • 12. Isaiah 45:22; Isaiah 52:10; S Amos 1:11-12
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