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burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.


 * 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,
 * And I hated Esau,
 * And laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
 * Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished,
 * But we will return and build the desolate places;
 * Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
 * They shall build, but I will throw down;
 * And they shall call them, The border of wickedness,
 * And, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.
 * And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say,
 * The Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel.


 * A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master:
 * If then I be a father, where is mine honour?
 * And if I be a master, where is my fear?
 * Saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name.