Malachi 1:1-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic 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 ³ but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals. ⁴ If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says: They may build, but I will tear down, until they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry forever. ⁵ Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, “Great is the Lord beyond the borders of Israel!”