Malachi 1:1-3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

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,^{(A) 3} but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.^(B)