Malachi 1:1-3

1The 12oracle of the word of the Lord to 3Israel through 4Malachi.

2“I have 5loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I 6have loved Jacob; 3but I have hated Esau, and I have 7made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.”