1. The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of Malachias.
2. I have loved you, saith the Lord: and you have said: Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob, saith the Lord, and I have loved Jacob,
3. But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert.
4. But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed, but we will return and build up what hath been destroyed: thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall build up, and I will throw down: and they shall be called the borders of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.
5. And your eyes shall see, and you shall say: The Lord be magnified upon the border of Israel.
6. The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts.