jps - Malachi:1:2-5

jps@Malachi:1:2 @ 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;

jps@Malachi:1:3 @ But Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

jps@Malachi:1:4 @ Whereas Edom saith: 'We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places'; thus saith the LORD of hosts: They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The border of wickedness, and The people whom the LORD execrateth for ever.

jps@Malachi:1:5 @ And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say: 'The LORD is great beyond the border of Israel.'