Malachi 1:1-3

Christian Standard Bible

The Lord’s Love for Israel

1 A pronouncement:^(A)

The word of the Lord^(B) to Israel through^(C) Malachi.^[a]

² “I have loved you,”^(D) says the Lord.

Yet you ask, “How have you loved us?”

“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” ^(E) This is the Lord’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob, ³ but I hated Esau.^(F) I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”^(G)