² “I have ^(A)loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was Esau not Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I ^(B)have loved Jacob; ³ but I have hated Esau, and I have ^(C)made his mountains a desolation and given his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.” ⁴ Though Edom says, “We have been ^(D)beaten down, but we will ^[a](E)return and build up the ruins”; this is what the Lord of armies says: “They may ^(F)build, but I will tear down; and people will call them the ^[b]territory of wickedness, and the people ^[c]with whom the Lord is indignant ^(G)forever.”