Malachi 1:1-3

New International Version - UK

1 A prophecy: the word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.^[a]

Israel doubts God’s love

² ‘I have loved you,’ says the Lord.

‘But you ask, “How have you loved us?”

‘Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?’ declares the Lord. ‘Yet I have loved Jacob, ³ but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.’