Malachi 1:1-3

Modern English Version

1 The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.

Israel Preferred to Edom

² I have loved you, says the Lord.

But you say, “How have You loved us?”

Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? says the Lord. Yet I have loved Jacob; ³ but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a desolation and left his inheritance for the jackals of the desert.