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.”