An Oracle Against Edom

² “I have loved you,” says Yahweh, but you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is Esau not Jacob’s brother?” declares^[a] Yahweh. “I have loved Jacob, ³ but Esau I have hated. I have made his^[b] mountain ranges a desolation, and given his inheritance to the jackals of the desert.” ⁴ If Edom says, “We are shattered, but we will return and rebuild the ruins,” Yahweh of hosts says this: “They may build, but I will tear down; and they will be called a territory of wickedness, and the people with whom Yahweh is angry forever.” ⁵ Your eyes will see this, and you will say, “Yahweh is great beyond the borders^[c] of Israel.”