1. The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of Malachi.
2. I have loved you, says the Lord, and you have said, "In what way have you loved us?" Was not Esau brother to Jacob, says the Lord? And have I not loved Jacob,
3. but held hatred for Esau? And I have set his mountains in solitude, and his inheritance with the serpents of the desert.
4. But if Idumea will say, "We have been destroyed, but when we return, we will build up what has been destroyed," thus says the Lord of hosts: They will build up, and I will destroy. And they will be called "The limits of impiety," and, "The people with whom the Lord has been angry, even to eternity."