1 The burden of the Devar Hashem to Yisroel by Malachi.
2 I have loved you, saith Hashem. Yet ye say, Wherein hast Thou loved us? Was not Esav Ya'akov's brother? saith Hashem; yet I loved Ya'akov,
3 But I hated Esav, and his mountains and his nachalah I laid waste into wasteland for the jackals of the midbar.
4 Whereas Edom saith, We are dashed to pieces, but we will return and rebuild the ruins; thus saith Hashem Tzva'os: They may build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, Gevul Rishah (territory of wickedness), and the people against whom Hashem hath indignation ad olam (for ever).
5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Hashem is gadol (great) even beyond the Gevul Yisroel.
6 A ben honoreth his av, and an eved his adon; if then I be an Av, where is Mine honor? And if I be Adonim, where is My reverence? saith Hashem Tzva'os unto you, O kohanim, that despise My Name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised Thy name?