1. A revelation, the Lord’s word to Israel by Malachi.
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;” the Lord of Hosts says, “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.”
5. Your eyes will see, and you will say, “The Lord is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”