Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places,” the LORD of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom the LORD shows wrath forever.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Malachi 1:4 in context
Malachi 1:1–7
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A revelation, the LORD’s word to Israel by Malachi.
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“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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but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
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Selected verse
Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places,” the LORD of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom the LORD shows wrath forever.”
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Your eyes will see, and you will say, “The LORD is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”
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“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
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You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘The LORD’s table is contemptible.’
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