1. An oracle: The word of Adonai to Israel by Malachi.
2. “I loved you,” says Adonai. But you say: “How have you loved us?” “Was Esau not Jacob’s brother?” —it is the declaration of Adonai— “Yet I loved Jacob
3. and Esau I hated. I made his hills a wasteland and gave his inheritance to jackals of the wilderness.”
4. For Edom may say, “We have been beaten down, but we will return and rebuild the ruins.” Thus Adonai-Tzva’ot says: “They may rebuild but I will tear down. They will be called a wicked territory, the people Adonai denounced forever.