1. The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi.
2. I have loved you, saith Jehovah; but ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah, and I loved Jacob,
3. and I hated Esau; and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.
4. If Edom say, We are broken down, but we will build again the ruined places, --thus saith Jehovah of hosts: They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them the territory of wickedness, and the people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.