Malachi 1:1-5

Christian Standard Bible

The Lord’s Love for Israel

1 A pronouncement:^(A)

The word of the Lord^(B) to Israel through^(C) Malachi.^[a]

² “I have loved you,”^(D) says the Lord.

Yet you ask, “How have you loved us?”

“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” ^(E) This is the Lord’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob, ³ but I hated Esau.^(F) I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”^(G)

⁴ Though Edom says, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild^[b] the ruins,” the Lord of Armies says this: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country^(H) and the people the Lord has cursed^[c] forever.^{(I) 5} Your own eyes will see this, and you yourselves will say, ‘The Lord is great, even beyond^[d] the borders of Israel.’^(J)