Malachi 1:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

1 An oracle. The word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.^[a]

Israel Preferred to Edom

² I have loved you, says the Lord. But you say, ‘How have you loved us?’ Is not Esau Jacob’s brother? says the Lord. Yet I have loved Jacob ³ but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.