1 The burden of the word of the LORD against Israel by the hand of Malachi.
2 I have loved you, said the LORD. Yet ye say, In what hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? said the LORD; yet I loved Jacob, 3 and I rejected Esau and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. 4 When Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The province of wickedness and The people against whom the LORD has indignation for ever. 5 And your eyes shall see and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified over the province of Israel.