1. The burden of a word of Jehovah unto Israel by the hand of Malachi:
2. I have loved you, said Jehovah, And ye have said, `In what hast Thou loved us?'
3. Is not Esau Jacob's brother? --an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.
4. Because Edom saith, `We have been made poor, And we turn back and we build the wastes,' Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They do build, and I do destroy, And [men] have called to them, `O region of wickedness,' `O people whom Jehovah defied to theage.'