Malachi 1:2-3 ▼

2 “I have loved you⁺,” says the LORD {YHWH}. But you⁺ ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau (hairy) Jacob’s (he grasps the heel) brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,

3 but Esau (hairy) I have hated , and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals (to the serpents of the wilderness).