Malachi 1:1-3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Lord’s Love for Israel

1 A pronouncement:^(A)

The word of the Lord^(B) to Israel through^(C) Malachi.^[a]

² ‘I have loved you,’^(D) says the Lord.

Yet you ask, ‘How have you loved us? ’

‘Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother? ’^(E) This is the Lord’s declaration. ‘Even so, I loved Jacob, ³ but I hated Esau.^(F) I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.’^(G)