Malachi 1:2-4 ▼

2 “ I have loved you,” says the LORD. But 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.”

4 Though Edom says: “ We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” the LORD of Hosts says this: “ They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country and the people the LORD has cursed forever .