Malachi 1:2-5

International Children’s Bible

God Loves Israel

² The Lord said, “I love you.”

But you ask, “How have you loved us?”

The Lord said, “Esau and Jacob were brothers. I loved Jacob, ³ but I hated Esau. I destroyed his mountain country. I left his land to the wild dogs of the desert.”

⁴ The people of Edom might say, “We were destroyed. But we will go back and rebuild the ruins.”

But the Lord of heaven’s armies says, “If they rebuild them, I will destroy them. People will say, ‘Edom is the Wicked Country. The Lord is always angry with the Edomites.’ ⁵ You will see these things with your own eyes. You will say, ‘The Lord is great, even outside the borders of Israel!’”