Malachi 1:2-5
2 “I have (A)loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I (B)have loved Jacob;
3 but I have hated Esau, and I have (C)made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.”
4 Though Edom says, “We have been (D)beaten down, but we will (a)(E)return and build up the ruins”; thus says the Lord of hosts, “They may (F)build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the (b)wicked territory, and the people (c)toward whom the Lord is indignant (G)forever.”
5 Your eyes will see this and you will say, “(H)The Lord (d)be magnified beyond the (e)border of Israel!”
Footnotes:
a.
Malachi 1:4: ['Or ', rebuild the ruins]
b.
Malachi 1:4: ['Lit ', border of wickedness]
c.
Malachi 1:4: ['Or ', whom the Lord has cursed]
d.
Malachi 1:5: ['Or ', will be great]
e.
Malachi 1:5: ['Or ', territory]
Cross references:
A.
Malachi 1:2:
Deuteronomy 4:37; Deuteronomy 7:8; Deuteronomy 23:5; Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 41:9; Jeremiah 31:3; John 15:12