Malachi 1:1-3 ▼

1 A pronouncement: The word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.

2 “I have loved you,” says the LORD. Yet you ask, “How have you loved us? ” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother? ” This is the LORD’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob,

3 but I hated Esau. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”