1. An oracle. The word of Yahweh to Israel through Malachi.
2. “I have loved you,” says Yahweh, but you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is Esau not Jacob’s brother?” declares Yahweh. “I have loved Jacob,
3. but Esau I have hated. I have made his 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.”