Malachi 1:2–3

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

d	Dt 4:37 Dt 7:6–8 Dt 10:14–15 Ne 13:26 Ps 78:68
e	Ge 25:25–26 Ge 36:19
f	Ge 25:23 Ro 9:10–13
g	Is 34:5–17 Je 49:7–22 Eze 35:1–15