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.”