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"I have ^(c)loved you," says the Lord . But you say, "How have You loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the Lord . "Yet I ^(d)have loved Jacob;

but I have hated Esau, and I have ^(e)made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness."

Though Edom says, "We have been ^(f)beaten down, but we will ^[c](g)return and build up the ruins"; thus says the Lord of hosts, "They may ^(h)build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the ^[d]wicked territory, and the people ^[e]toward whom the Lord is indignant ⁽ⁱ⁾forever."

Your eyes will see this and you will say, "^(j)The Lord ^[f]be magnified beyond the ^[g]border of Israel!"