King James Version (KJV) Authorized Version 1611
Read Full Chapter (Malachi 1) Malachi 1:2,3 KJV
"I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness."
Malachi 1:2,3 in Context (Verses 1–6 KJV)
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The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.*
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I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
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And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
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Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
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And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.*
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¶ A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?