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Malachi 1:2

“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,

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ASV

I 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;

KJV

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,

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16 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אָהַ֤בְתִּי'a.Hav.tiI have lovedH157 →
אֶתְכֶם֙'et.Khem<obj.> youH853 →
אָמַ֣ר'a.Marhe saysH559 →
יְהוָ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖םva.'a.mar.Temand you sayH559 →
בַּמָּ֣הba.Mah<in> how?H4100 →
אֲהַבְתָּ֑נוּ'a.hav.Ta.nuhave you loved usH157 →
הֲלוֹא־ha.lo'-¿ notH3808 →
אָ֨ח'ach[did] a brotherH251 →
עֵשָׂ֤ו'e.SavEsauH6215 →
לְיַֽעֲקֹב֙le.ya.'a.Ko[belong] to JacobH3290 →
נְאֻם־ne.'um-[the] utterance ofH5002 →
יְהוָ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
וָאֹהַ֖בva.'o.Havand I lovedH157 →
אֶֽת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
יַעֲקֹֽב׃ya.'a.KoJacobH3290 →

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Jeremiah 31:3The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.Isaiah 41:8–9“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—Deuteronomy 10:15Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.Romans 9:10–13Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.Deuteronomy 33:3Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—Ezekiel 16:8Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.Malachi 3:13–14“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’Deuteronomy 4:37Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,Deuteronomy 7:6–8For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.Deuteronomy 32:8–14When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.Malachi 3:7–8Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’Isaiah 43:4Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.Malachi 1:6–7“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’Romans 11:28–29Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.Malachi 2:17You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”Deuteronomy 23:5Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.Genesis 32:28–30Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”Genesis 27:33Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”

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About Malachi

Ezra Reads the Law to the People — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Ezra Reads the Law to the People — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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