Malachi 1:2-4 ▼

2 |I have loved you,| says the LORD. Yet you say, |How have you loved us?| |Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?| says the LORD, |Yet I loved Jacob;

3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.|

4 Whereas Edom says, |We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;| thus says the LORD of hosts, |They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom the LORD shows wrath forever.|