Malachi 1:2-5

Common English Bible

² I have loved you, says the Lord;
        but you say, “How have you loved us?”
Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?
says the Lord.
        I loved Jacob, ³ but I rejected Esau.
I turned Esau’s mountains into desolation,
        his inheritance into a wilderness for jackals.
⁴ Edom may say, “We are beaten down, but we will rebuild the ruins”;
    but the Lord of heavenly forces proclaims:
    They may build, but I will tear them down.
    They will call themselves a wicked territory,
            the people against whom the Lord rages forever.
⁵ Your eyes will see it and you will say,
        “May the Lord be great beyond the borders of Israel.”