1. The message of the word of יהוה to Yisra’ĕl by Mal’aḵi.
2. “I have loved you,” said יהוה. “But you asked, ‘In what way have You loved us?’ “Was not Ěsaw Ya‛aqoḇ’s brother?” declares יהוה. “And I love Ya‛aqoḇ,
3. but I have hated Ěsaw, and have laid waste his mountains and his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.”
4. If Eḏom says, “We have been beaten down, let us return and build the ruins,” יהוה of hosts said thus: “Let them build, but I tear down. And they shall be called ‘Border of Wrongness’, and the people against whom יהוה is enraged forever.
5. And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, ‘Great is יהוה beyond the border of Yisra’ĕl!’
6. “A son esteems his father, and a servant his master. And if I am the Father, where is My esteem? And if I am a Master, where is My fear? said יהוה of hosts to you priests who despise My Name. But you asked, ‘In what way have we despised Your Name?’