1 The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord.“Yet you say, ‘In what way have You loved us?’Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?”Says the Lord.“Yet Jacob I have loved;
3 But Esau I have hated,And laid waste his mountains and his heritageFor the jackals of the wilderness.”
4 Even though Edom has said,“We have been impoverished,But we will return and build the desolate places,”Thus says the Lord of hosts:“They may build, but I will throw down;They shall be called the Territory of Wickedness,And the people against whom the Lord will have indignation forever.
5 Your eyes shall see,And you shall say,‘The Lord is magnified beyond the border of Israel.’