Mal 1:2-3 | NIV | STEP | ‘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 I have loved Jacob,

Malachi 1:2-3

Israel doubts God’s love

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 I have loved Jacob, 3 but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.’