Malachi 1:2

An Oracle Against Edom

¹ An oracle: The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi. ² “I have loved you,” says the Lord.

But you ask: “How have You loved us?”

“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” This is the Lord’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob, ³ but I hated Esau. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

For Us

I Have Loved You

Says the Lord

Declares The Lord

Esau

Israel

Jacob

Jehovah

Jeremiah 31:3

the Lord appeared to him from far away.
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore, I have continued to extend faithful love to you.

Isaiah 41:8-9

But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob, whom I have chosen,
descendant of Abraham, My friend—

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words.

Yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?”

When you say, “Everyone who does what is evil is good in the Lord’s sight, and He is pleased with them,” or “Where is the God of justice?”

Malachi 3:7-8

“Since the days of your fathers, you have turned from My statutes; you 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?”

Genesis 25:23

And the Lord said to her:

Two nations are in your womb;
two people will come from you and be separated.
One people will be stronger than the other,
and the older will serve the younger.

Genesis 27:27-30

So he came closer and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothes, he blessed him and said:

Ah, the smell of my son
is like the smell of a field
that the Lord has blessed.

Genesis 27:33

Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably. “Who was it then,” he said, “who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came in, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed!”

Genesis 28:3-4

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples.

Genesis 28:13-14

Yahweh was standing there beside him, saying, “I am Yahweh, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land that you are now sleeping on.

Genesis 32:28-30

“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” He said. “It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Genesis 48:4

He said to me, ‘I will make you fruitful and numerous; I will make many nations come from you, and I will give this land as an eternal possession to your future descendants.’

Deuteronomy 4:37

Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be His own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 10:15

Yet the Lord was devoted to your fathers and loved them. He chose their descendants after them—He chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 32:8-14

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance
and divided the human race,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of the people of Israel.

Isaiah 43:4

Because you are precious in My sight
and honored, and I love you,
I will give people in exchange for you
and nations instead of your life.

Jeremiah 2:5

This is what the Lord says:

What fault did your fathers find in Me
that they went so far from Me,
followed worthless idols,
and became worthless themselves?

Jeremiah 2:31

Evil generation,
pay attention to the word of the Lord!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel
or a land of dense darkness?
Why do My people claim,
“We will go where we want;
we will no longer come to You”?

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 Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.”

Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”

Malachi 3:13-14

“Your words against Me are harsh,” says the Lord.

Yet you ask: “What have we spoken against You?”

Luke 10:29

But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Romans 9:10-13

And not only that, but also Rebekah received a promise when she became pregnant by one man, our ancestor Isaac.

Romans 11:28-29

Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage, but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,