Malachi 1:2 ““I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us…”

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,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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,

World English Bible

“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;

American Standard Version

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;

Geneva Bible 1599

I haue loued you, sayth the Lord: yet yee say, Wherein hast thou loued vs? Was not Esau Iaakobs brother, saith the Lord? yet I loued Iaakob,

Darby Translation

I have loved you, saith Jehovah; but ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah, and I loved Jacob,

Young's Literal Translation

I have loved you, said Jehovah, And ye have said, 'In what hast Thou loved us?'

Bible in Basic English

You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,

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Cross references

“I have”

Jeremiah 31:3 Deuteronomy 10:15 Deuteronomy 7:6–8 Deuteronomy 32:8–14 Isaiah 43:4 Isaiah 41:8

Jeremiah 31:3 · BSB

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.

Deuteronomy 10:15 · BSB

Yet 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.

Deuteronomy 7:6–8 · BSB

For 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 32:8–14 · BSB

When 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.

Isaiah 43:4 · BSB

Because 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.

Isaiah 41:8 · BSB

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

“Wherein”

Malachi 2:17 Jeremiah 2:5 Jeremiah 2:31 Luke 10:29 Malachi 1:6 Malachi 1:7

Malachi 2:17 · BSB

You 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?”

Jeremiah 2:5 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.

Jeremiah 2:31 · BSB

You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?

Luke 10:29 · BSB

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

Malachi 1:6 · BSB

“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…

Malachi 1:7 · BSB

By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You ?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.

“yet I”

Romans 9:10–13 Genesis 25:23 Genesis 27:27–30 Genesis 27:33 Genesis 32:28–30 Genesis 48:4

Romans 9:10–13 · BSB

Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

Genesis 25:23 · BSB

and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

Genesis 27:27–30 · BSB

So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, 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 · BSB

Isaac 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!”

Genesis 32:28–30 · BSB

Then 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 48:4 · BSB

and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’

Also

Deuteronomy 4:37

Deuteronomy 4:37 · BSB

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

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1This is the burden of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi:

3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals. ”

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