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The LORD’s Love for Israel

The LORD’s Love for Israel

(Genesis 25:19–28, Romans 9:6–29)


1This is the burden of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi:[fn]


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 Jacob I have loved, 3but Esau I have hated,[fn] and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.[fn]

4Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever. 5You will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, ‘The LORD is great—even beyond the borders of Israel.’ ”


1:1 Malachi means My messenger.

1:3 Cited in Romans 9:13

1:3 Or to the serpents of the wilderness or to the dragons of the wilderness

MAL 1:1–1:5 ©

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