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Malachi 1:2
I have loved you, said Jehovah, And ye have said, `In what hast Thou loved us?'
Malachi 1:2 · Young's Literal Translation
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Malachi 1:2 in other translations
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,
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the LORD, “Yet I loved Jacob;
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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.'
5 And your eyes do see, and ye say, `Magnified is Jehovah beyond the border of Israel,
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