1. An oracle. The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.
2. I love you, says the Lord;but you say, “How do you love us?”
3. Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?—oracle of the Lord.I loved Jacob, but rejected Esau;I made his mountains a waste,his heritage a desert for jackals.
4. If Edom says, “We have been crushed,but we will rebuild the ruins,”Thus says the Lord of hosts:They indeed may build, but I will tear down,And they shall be called “territory of wickedness,”the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.