Malachi 1:2-4 ▼

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).

4 Though Edom (red) may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD {YHWH} of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.