Malachi 1:1-3

21st Century King James Version

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

² “I have loved you,” saith the Lord. “Yet ye say, ‘Wherein hast Thou loved us?’ Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” saith the Lord. “Yet I loved Jacob,

³ and I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.”