² “I have loved you,”^(A) says the Lord.

But you ask: “How have You loved us?”

“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?”^(B) This is the Lord’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob,

³ but I hated Esau.^(A) I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”^(B)

¹¹ For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—^{(A) 12} not from works but from the One who calls—she was told: The older will serve the younger.^{(B)[a] 13} As it is written: I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau.^(C)[b]