Malachi 1:1-3

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

1 The burden or oracle (the thing to be lifted up) of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi [My messenger].

² I have loved you, says the Lord. Yet you say, How and in what way have You loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? says the Lord; yet I loved Jacob (Israel),

³ But [in comparison with the degree of love I have for Jacob] I have hated Esau [Edom] and have laid waste his mountains, and his heritage I have given to the jackals of the wilderness.^(A)