Malachi 1:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

1 The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of Malachias.

² I have loved you, saith the Lord: and you have said: Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob, saith the Lord, and I have loved Jacob,

³ But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert.