1. An oracle: The word of Adonai to Israel by Malachi.
2. “I loved you,” says Adonai. But you say: “How have you loved us?” “Was Esau not Jacob’s brother?” —it is the declaration of Adonai— “Yet I loved Jacob
3. and Esau I hated. I made his hills a wasteland and gave his inheritance to jackals of the wilderness.”