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2 I have loved you, says the Lord. But you say, "How have you loved us?" Is not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord. Yet I have loved Jacob
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2 "I have loved you," says the LORD. "But you ask, 'How have you loved us?' "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" the LORD says. "Yet I have loved Jacob,
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3 but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.
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3 but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals."
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4 If Edom says, "We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins," the Lord of hosts says: They may build, but I will tear down, until they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.
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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.
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5 Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, "Great is the Lord beyond the borders of Israel!"
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5 You will see it with your own eyes and say, 'Great is the LORD--even beyond the borders of Israel!'
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