Malachi 1:2-4

Legacy Standard Bible

² “I have ^(A)loved you,” says Yahweh. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares Yahweh. “Yet I ^(B)have loved Jacob; ³ but I have hated Esau, and I have ^(C)set his mountains to be a desolation and his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.” ⁴ Though Edom says, “We have been ^(D)demolished, but we will ^[a](E)return and build up the waste places”; thus says Yahweh of hosts, “They may ^(F)build, but I will pull down; and men will call them a ^[b]territory of wickedness, and the people ^[c]toward whom Yahweh is indignant ^(G)forever.”