An oracle: The word of ADONAI to Israel by Malachi. “I loved you,” says ADONAI. But you say: “How have you loved us?” “Was Esau not Jacob’s brother?” —it is the declaration of ADONAI— “Yet I loved Jacob and Esau I hated. I made his hills a wasteland and gave his inheritance to jackals of the wilderness.” For Edom may say, “We have been beaten down, but we will return and rebuild the ruins.” Thus ADONAI-Tzva’ot says: “They may rebuild but I will tear