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2 |I loved you,| says the LORD. |But you ask, 'How did you love us?' |Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?| declares the LORD. |I loved Jacob, 3 but Esau I hated. I turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the jackals in the desert. 4 |The descendants of Esau may say, 'We have been beaten down, but we will rebuild the ruins.' |Yet, this is what the LORD of Armies says: They may rebuild, but I will tear it down. They will be called 'the Wicked Land' and 'the people with whom the LORD is always angry.' Malachi 1:2-4, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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