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


In Context

1 The burden of a word of Jehovah unto Israel by the hand of Malachi:

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

3 Is not Esau Jacob's brother? — an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.

4 Because Edom saith, 'We have been made poor, And we turn back and we build the wastes,' Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They do build, and I do destroy, And men have called to them, 'O region of wickedness,' 'O people whom Jehovah defied to the age.'

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:2"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,

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 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,