Malachi 1:1-6 (New American Standard)
View In My BibleGod's Love for Jacob
1 The a1oracle of the word of the LORD to 2Israel through bMalachi. 2 "I have 3loved you," says the LORD. But you say, "How have You loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother ?" declares the LORD. "Yet I 4have loved Jacob ; 3 but I have hated Esau, and I have 5made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness." 4 Though Edom says, "We have been 6beaten down, but we will c7return and build up the ruins "; thus says the LORD of hosts, "They may 8build, but I will tear down ; and men will call them the dwicked territory, and the people etoward whom the LORD is indignant 9forever ." 5 Your eyes will see this and you will say, "10The LORD fbe magnified beyond the gborder of Israel !"Sin of the Priests
6 " 'A son 11honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a 12father, where is My honor ? And if I am a master, where is My hrespect ?' says the LORD of hosts to you, O 13priests who despise My name. But you say, 'How have we despised Your name ?'New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California. All rights reserved. (New American Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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