Malachi 1:1-3

1The 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;

3But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness.”