KJV King James Version
The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
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Malachi 1:1
The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
This is the burden of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi:
WEB World English Bible
An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.
ASV American Standard Version
The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The burden of a word of Jehovah unto Israel by the hand of Malachi:
Surrounding context — Malachi 1
1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
2 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,
3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
4 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.
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Habakkuk 1:1The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.Isaiah 13:1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.Haggai 1:1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,Haggai 2:1In the seventh [month], in the one and twentieth [day] of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,Nahum 1:1The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.Zechariah 9:1The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus [shall be] the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, [shall be] toward the LORD.Zechariah 12:1The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
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