1. An oracle: The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.
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.