Malachi 1

1An oracle: Yahweh’s word to Israel by Malachi.

2“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;

3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”

4Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places”; thus says Yahweh of Armies, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

5Your eyes will see, and you will say, “Yahweh is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”