2"I have loved you," says the Lord . "But you ask, 'How have you loved us?' "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" the Lord says. "Yet I have loved Jacob,


In Context

1 An oracle: The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.

2 "I have loved you," says the Lord . "But you ask, 'How have you loved us?' "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" the Lord says. "Yet I have loved Jacob,

3 but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals."

4 Edom may say, "Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins." But this is what the Lord Almighty says: "They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord .

Malachi 1:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:2I 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,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:2I have loved you, saith Jehovah; but ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah, and I loved Jacob,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:2I have loved you, saith the Lord: and you have said: Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob, saith the Lord, and I have loved Jacob,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:2I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:2I 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;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:2I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, In what hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:2|I have loved you,| says Yahweh. Yet you say, |How have you loved us?| |Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?| says Yahweh, |Yet I loved Jacob;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:2I have loved you, said Jehovah, And ye have said, 'In what hast Thou loved us?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:2I have loved you, said the LORD. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? said the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,