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"I have loved you," says the Lord. "Yet you say, 'In what way have You loved us?' Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" Says the Lord. "Yet Jacob I have loved;
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But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness."
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Even though Edom has said, "We have been impoverished, But we will return and build the desolate places," Thus says the Lord of hosts: "They may build, but I will throw down; They shall be called the Territory of Wickedness, And the people against whom the Lord will have indignation forever.
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Your eyes shall see, And you shall say, 'The Lord is magnified beyond the border of Israel.'