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The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel by Mal'achi.
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"I have loved you," says the LORD. But you say, "How hast thou loved us?" "Is not Esau Jacob's brother?" says the LORD. "Yet I have loved Jacob
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but I have hated Esau; I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert."
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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, till they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the LORD is angry for ever."
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Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, "Great is the LORD, beyond the border of Israel!"
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"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised thy name?'
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By offering polluted food upon my altar. And you say, 'How have we polluted it?' By thinking that the LORD's table may be despised.